Herbal and food folk medicines of the Russlanddeutschen living in Künzelsau/Taläcker, South-Western Germany

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 889-901

  Pieroni, Andrea ^a   Gray, Charlotte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethnobotany; Ethnopharmacy; Germans; Migrants; Russia; Russlanddeutschen; Traditional medicine

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ALOE; APIALES; APPLE; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BEET; BIRCH; BLACK CURRANT; BUCKWHEAT; CABBAGE; CHELIDONIUM; COMMON COLD SYMPTOM; CORIANDER; COUGHING; CRATAEGUS; CUCUMBER; DANDELION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIARRHEA; EQUISETUM; ETHNOBOTANY; EUROPE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GARLIC; GERMANY; GRAPE; HAIR LOSS; HEADACHE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HERBAL MEDICINE; HORSERADISH; HUMAN; HUMULUS LUPULUS; HYPERICUM PERFORATUM; INFLUENZA; INTERVIEW; JERUSALEM ARTICHOKE; MARIGOLD; MATRICARIA; MEDICINAL PLANT; MENTHA; MILLET; ONION; OREGANO; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANTAGO; PLUM; POTATO; RADISH; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHUBARB; RICE; ROSE; RUMEX; RYE; SAMBUCUS NIGRA; SKIN INFLAMMATION; SORE THROAT; STELLARIA; TOMATO; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; URTICA DIOICA; VARICOSIS; WATERMELON; WELLBEING; WHEAT; WOUND;

CULTURE; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; GERMANY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; RUSSIA; VEGETABLES;

CITRULLUS LANATUS VAR. LANATUS; CORIANDRUM SATIVUM; SECALE CEREALE;

EID: 48749112343     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: 10991573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.2410     Document Type: Article

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