Urban ethnobotany study in Samogitia region, Lithuania

Journal of Medicinal Plants Research

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 064-071

  Petkeviciute, Zivile ^a,b   Savickiene, Nijole ^a   Savickas, Arunas ^a   Bernatoniene, Jurga ^a   Simaitiene, Zenona ^a,b   Kalveniene, Zenona ^a   Pranskunas, Andrius ^c   Lazauskas, Robertas ^a   Mekas, Tauras Antanas ^a,b  

^a KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Lithuania)

^b Museum of the History of Lithuania Medicine and Pharmacy   (Lithuania)

^c KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE HOSPITAL   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Lithuania; Medicinal plants; Samogitia; Urban ethnobotany

Indexed keywords

AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM EXTRACT; BETULA PUBESSCENS EXTRACT; BISTORTA MAJOR EXTRACT; BRYONIA ALBA EXTRACT; CALENDULA OFFICINALIS EXTRACT; COMFREY EXTRACT; CRATAEGUS MONOGYNA EXTRACT; GARLIC EXTRACT; HERBACEOUS AGENT; HYPERICUM PERFORATUM EXTRACT; PEPPERMINT; PLANT EXTRACT; PLANTAGO MAJOR EXTRACT; POPULUS CANESCENS EXTRACT; SALVIA OFFICINALIS EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALERIAN;

ACHILLEA; ACORUS CALAMUS; ADULT; AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM; AGED; ANEMIA; ANGIOSPERM; ANOREXIA; ANTHEMIS; ANURIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTEMISIA ABSINTHIUM; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; ASPEN; ASTERACEAE; BILE DUCT STONE; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; BONE PAIN; BRONCHITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMFREY; CONSTIPATION; CONTUSION; COUGHING; CYSTITIS; DIARRHEA; ECZEMA; ENTEROPATHY; EPILEPSY; ERYSIPELAS; ETHNOBOTANY; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTRITIS; GINGIVA BLEEDING; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HEARTBURN; HEMORRHOID; HUMAN; HYPERICUM PERFORATUM; HYPERTENSION; INDIGESTION; INFLUENZA; INSECT BITE; INSOMNIA; JAUNDICE; KIDNEY DISEASE; LINGONBERRY; LITHUANIA; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER PAIN; MALE; MARIGOLD; MEDICINAL PLANT; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; METRITIS; MOUTH ULCER; MYALGIA; NEPHROLITHIASIS; OAK; PNEUMONIA; PROSTATE DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; ROSACEAE; SCABIES; SORE THROAT; STOMACH DISEASE; STOMACH DISTENSION; STOMACH PAIN; STOMACH ULCER; TUBERCULOSIS; URBAN AREA; URINARY TRACT INFLAMMATION; VALERIANA OFFICINALIS; VARICOSIS; VITAMIN DEFICIENCY; WOUND;

ACHILLEA MILLEFOLIUM; ACORUS CALAMUS; AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM; ANTHEMIS TINCTORIA; ARTEMISIA ABSINTHIUM; ASTERACEAE; CALENDULA OFFICINALIS; HYPERICUM PERFORATUM; LAMIACEAE; POPULUS ALBA X POPULUS TREMULA; QUERCUS ROBUR; ROSACEAE; SYMPHYTUM OFFICINALE; VACCINIUM VITIS-IDAEA; VALERIANA OFFICINALIS;

EID: 76149140499     PISSN: 19960875     EISSN: 19960875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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