A survey of medicinal plants used by Kavirajes of Chalna area, Khulna district, Bangladesh

African Journal of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicines

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 91-97

  Rahmatullah, Mohammed ^a   Ferdausi, Dilara ^a   Mollik, Md Ariful Haque ^a   Jahan, Rownak ^a   Chowdhury, Majeedul H ^b   Haque, Wahid Mozammel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEVELOPMENT ALTERNATIVE   (Bangladesh)

^b NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Chalna; Khulna district; Medicinal plants; Traditional medicine

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT; PLANT EXTRACT;

ACANTHACEAE; AGAVACEAE; ALOPECIA; AMARANTHACEAE; ANACARDIACEAE; ANGIOSPERM; APIALES; APOCYNACEAE; ARACEAE; ARTICLE; ASTERACEAE; ASTHMA; BANGLADESH; BARK; BRONCHITIS; CARICACEAE; CHOLELITHIASIS; COLIC; COMMON COLD; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; CRUCIFERA; CUCUMBER; CUSCUTA; CYPERACEAE; DERMATITIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIARRHEA; DOG BITE; DRUG EFFECT; DYSENTERY; ECZEMA; EDEMA; EUPHORBIA; EYE DISEASE; FEVER; FLOWER; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GONORRHEA; GOUT; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART DISEASE; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMPOTENCE; INDIGESTION; JAUNDICE; LEGUME; LEPROSY; LEUKORRHEA; LIVER DISEASE; LYTHRACEAE; MALARIA; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; MORACEAE; MUMPS; MUSCLE SPASM; MYRTACEAE; NEOPLASM; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NIGHT BLINDNESS; NYCTAGINACEAE; OLEACEAE; PINACEAE; PIPERACEAE; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLANT SEED; PLANT STEM; PNEUMONIA; POACEAE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRURITUS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RHIZOPHORACEAE; RUBIACEAE; RUTACEAE; SCABIES; SCROPHULARIACEAE; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SKIN ABSCESS; SKIN DISEASE; SMALLPOX; SNAKEBITE; SORE THROAT; STOMACH PAIN; TONSILLITIS; TOOTH PAIN; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TUBERCULOSIS; TYPHACEAE; TYPHOID FEVER; URTICACEAE; VERBENACEAE; WOUND;

EID: 77954120057     PISSN: 01896016     EISSN: 01896016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4314/ajtcam.v7i2.50859     Document Type: Article

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