Some medicinal plants of Arabian Pennisula

Journal of Medicinal Plants Research

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 766-788

  Saganuwan, Alhaji Saganuwan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Arabs; Medicinal plants; Middle east

Indexed keywords

COWPEA EXTRACT; HERBACEOUS AGENT; IPECAC; LUFFA ACUTANGULA EXTRACT; MYRTLE EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; RAPHANUS SATIVUS EXTRACT; SOUR ORANGE EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADDISON DISEASE; AGARICUS; AGARICUS CAMPESTUS; ALFALFA; ALLERGIC DISEASE; ALMOND; ALOPECIA; ALTHEA OFFICINALIS; AMARANTHUS; AMARANTHUS HYBRIDUS; ANACARDIACEAE; ANGIOSPERM; ANISE; ANTHENIS NOBILIS; APIALES; APPLE; APRICOT; ARAB; ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA ABSINTHIUM; ARTEMISIA BREVIFOLIA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICHOKE; ARTICLE; ARVENA SATIVA; ASARUM; ASARUM EUROPEAN; ASTERACEAE; ATROPA BELLADONNA; AUBERGINE; AVOCADO; BALSAMODENDRON MYRRHA; BANANA; BARK; BASIL; BLACK CUMIN; BORAGO; BRASSICA JUNCEA; BRASSICA NIGRA; BRASSICACEAE; CABBAGE; CACAO; CANTALOUPE; CARAWAY; CARROT; CELERY; CENTAURIUM; CENTAURIUM ERYTHREA; CEPHAELIS; CERATONIA SILIQUA; CHESTNUT; CHICKPEA; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHORIANDRUM SATIVUM; CINNAMOMUM ZEYLANICUM; CINNAMON; CITRON; CLOVE; COCONUT; COFFEE; COLCHICUM; COLCHICUM AUTUMNALE; COLOCASIA; COLOCASIA ANTIQUORUM; COLOCYNTH; COMPOSITAE; COUGHING; COWPEA; CRATAEGUS; CRATAEGUS AZAROLE; CUCUMBER; CUNINUM CYNINUM; CUPRESSACEAE; CYDONIA OBLONGATA; CYPERUS; CYPERUS ESCULENTUS; CYSTITIS; DACTYLIS; DACTYLIS GLOMERATA; DIARRHEA; DILL; DRUG INDICATION; EDEMA; ENDIVE; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ETHNOBOTANY; EYE DISEASE; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FENNEL; FENUGREEK; FERULA ASAFOETIDA; FEVER; FICUS; FICUS CARICA; FICUS SYCOMORUS; FLEURYA OVALIFOLIA; FLOWER; FRUIT; GARLIC; GASTRITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GINGER; GLYCYRRHIZA GLABRA; GOUT; GRAPE; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HEADACHE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEART DISEASE; HELIOTROPIUM; HELIOTROPIUM INDICUM; HERBAL MEDICINE; HERPES SIMPLEX; HIBISCUS; HIBISCUS SABDARIFFA; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMULUS LUPULUS; INFECTION; INSECT STING; ISCHIALGIA; JUJUBE; JUNIPERUS OXYCEDRUS; KIDNEY DISEASE; LAWSONIA INERMIS; LEEK; LEMON; LENTIL; LEPROSY; LETTUCE; LIGNUM VITAE; LIME (FRUIT); LINSEED; LIVER DISEASE; LUFFA; LUFFA ACUTANGULA; LUPIN; LYTHRACEAE; LYTHRUM SALICARTA; MARRY TREE; MARSH SYLVESTRIS; MEDICINAL PLANT; MELILOTUS OFFICINALIS; MENINGITIS; MENTHA; MENTHA PIPERITA; MENTHA PULGIAM; MIDDLE EAST; MIGRAINE; MULBERRY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; MYRTACEAE; MYRTLE; NEPHRITIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUTMEG; OAK; OLIVE TREE; ONION; ORHCHIS; ORIGANUM MAJORANA; PAIN; PALM TREE; PARESTHESIA; PARSLEY; PEAR; PERTUSSIS; PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; PINACEAE; PINE OIL; PINEAPPLE; PIPER CUBEBA; PIPERACEAE; PISTACHIO; PISTACIA LENTISCUS; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLANT SEED; PLANT STEM; PLANTAGO; PLANTAGO MAJOR; POACEAE; POMEGRANATE; PORTULACA OLERACEA; PORTULACACEAE; PRUNUS MAHALEB; PSYCHOSIS; QUINCE; RADISH; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RHUS RADICANS; RICINUS COMMUNIS; ROSACEAE; ROSEMARY; RUTA GRAVEOLENS; RUTACEAE; SALVADORA PERSICA; SALVADORACEAE; SANTALACEAE; SANTALUM ALBUM; SECURIDACA; SECURIDACA LONGEPEDUNCULATA; SESAME; SKIN DISEASE; SOLANUM NIGRUM; SOLID TUMOR; SORGHUM BICOLOR; SOUR ORANGE; SPLEEN DISEASE; SQUASH; STOMACH DISEASE; SUNFLOWER; SWEET ORANGE; SYZYGIUM CUMINI; TAMARIND; TAMARISK; TEA; THYME; TOMATO; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TURNIP; URTICACEAE; VERRUCA VULGARIS; VOMITING; WALNUT; WATERCRESS; WATERMELON; WHEAT; WILLOW; WOUND;

EID: 77953444703     PISSN: 19960875     EISSN: 19960875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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