Ethnobotanical study on medicinal use of wild and cultivated plants in middle, south and west Bosnia and Herzegovina

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 33-55

  Šarić Kundalić, Broza ^a   Dobeš, Christoph ^a   Klatte Asselmeyer, Valerie ^a   Saukel, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bosnia and Herzegovina; Cultivated medicinal plants; Ethno medicine; Traditional medicine; Wild medicinal plants

Indexed keywords

ACORUS CALAMUS EXTRACT; AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM EXTRACT; ALLIUM URSINUM EXTRACT; ALTHAEA OFFICINALIS EXTRACT; ANETHUM GRAVEOLENS EXTRACT; ANGELICA ARCHANGELICA EXTRACT; ARCTIUM LAPPA EXTRACT; ARCTIUM TOMENTOSUM EXTRACT; ARMORACIA RUSTICANA EXTRACT; ARNICA MONTANA EXTRACT; BETULA PENDULA EXTRACT; BRASSICA OLERACEA CAPITATA EXTRACT; CARDUUS ACANTHOIDES EXTRACT; CARUM CARVI EXTRACT; CETRARIA ISLANDICA EXTRACT; CRATAEGUS MONOGYNA EXTRACT; DRUG ADDITIVE; FUMARIA OFFICINALIS EXTRACT; GALIUM ODORATUM EXTRACT; GARLIC EXTRACT; HIERACIUM PILOSELLA EXTRACT; HORDEUM VULGARE EXTRACT; HUMULUS LUPULUS EXTRACT; LARD; OLIVE OIL; ONION EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; PROPOLIS; RESIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ABIES; ACHILLEA; ANOREXIA; ARCTIUM; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BIODIVERSITY; BLADDER STONE; BLOOD DISEASE; BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; BURN; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARLINA; CONSTIPATION; COUGHING; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG INFUSION; DYSMENORRHEA; ENTEROPATHY; ETHNOBOTANY; EUPHRASIA; FATIGUE; FEVER; FLATULENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GERMANDER; GINGIVITIS; HANGOVER; HEART DISEASE; HEMORRHOID; HONEY; HUMAN; HYPERICUM; HYPERTENSION; INSOMNIA; ISCHEMIA; JAUNDICE; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIVER DISEASE; LUNG DISEASE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MENTHA; MIGRAINE; MOUTH INFECTION; MUSCLE SPASM; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OINTMENT; PHARMACY; PHARYNGITIS; PLANTAGO; PNEUMONIA; POWDER; PRESCRIPTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SKIN DISEASE; SPRUCE; STOMACH PAIN; SYRUP; TAXONOMY; THYMUS; TINCTURE; TOOTH PAIN; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TREATMENT INDICATION; ULCER; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; URTICA; UTERUS DISEASE; VARICOSIS; VERTIGO; WILD PLANT;

BIODIVERSITY; BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA; ETHNOBOTANY; HUMANS; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

ABIES; ACHILLEA; APOIDEA; ARCTIUM; CARLINA; EUPHRASIA; HYPERICUM; MENTHA; PICEA; PLANTAGO; SUIDAE; TEUCRIUM; TRACHEOPHYTA; URTICA;

EID: 77955316687     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2010.05.061     Document Type: Article

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