Medicinal plants used by traditional healers in Kancheepuram District of Tamil Nadu, India

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Muthu, Chellaiah ^a   Ayyanar, Muniappan ^a   Raja, Nagappan ^b   Ignacimuthu, Savarimuthu ^a  

^a LOYOLA COLLEGE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GONDAR   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIACEAE;

PLANT EXTRACT;

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AYURVEDA; CLASSIFICATION; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; ETHNOBOTANY; FEMALE; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; INDIA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL POPULATION; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

AGED; DATA COLLECTION; ETHNOBOTANY; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MEDICINE, AYURVEDIC; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; POPULATION GROUPS; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 34250822243     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4269-2-43     Document Type: Article

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