A comparative study on medicinal plants used in Akha's traditional medicine in China and Thailand, cultural coherence or ecological divergence?

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 508-517

  Inta, Angkhana ^a   Shengji, Pei ^b   Balslev, Henrik ^c   Wangpakapattanawong, Prasit ^a   Trisonthi, Chusie ^a  

^a CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b KUNMING INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Aini; Chiang Rai; Hani; Hill tribe; Xishuangbanna

Indexed keywords

ACHYRANTHES ASPERA; ACORUS CALAMUS; AGERATUM CONYZOIDES; ALOCASIA ESCULENTA; ALOCASIA ODORA; ALOE VERA; AMOMUM VILLOSUM; ANEMIA; ANGIOPTERIS CAUDATIFORMIS; ANGIOPTERIS EVECTA; ARDISIA DEPRESSA; ARGYREIA WALLICHII; ARTICLE; ARUNDINA GRAMINIFOLIA; ASCLEPIAS CURASSAVICA; ASPARAGUS FILICINUS; CAESALPINIA SAPPAN; CALLICARPA GIRALDII; CANARIUM ALBUM; CENTELLA ASIATICA; CHI SQUARE TEST; CHINA; CHINESE MEDICINE; CHORMOLAENA ODORATUM; CLAUSENA EXCAVATA; CLERODENDRUM COLEBROOKIANUM; CLERODENDRUM SERRATUM; CLERODENDRUM THOMSONIAE; CLERODENDRUM VISCOSUM; COLIC; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONYZA CANADENSIS; COSTUS SPECIOSUS; CRATEVA RELIGIOSA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CURCUMA CAESIA; DIARRHEA; ETHNICITY; ETHNOBOTANY; FEVER; FRACTURE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIGESTION; INTERVIEW; MEDICINAL PLANT; PERTUSSIS; RASH; SMALLPOX; SORE THROAT; STROKE; TETRASTIGMA; THAILAND; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; URETHRA STONE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND;

BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; CULTURE; ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; MEDICINE, HERBAL; MEDICINE, ORIENTAL TRADITIONAL; PLANT COMPONENTS, AERIAL; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; THAILAND;

EID: 40249091278     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2007.12.015     Document Type: Article

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