Folklore claims on snakebite among some tribal communities of Central India

Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 296-299

  Kadel, Chitralekha ^a   Jain, Ashok K ^b  

^a Lok Manya Tilak College   (India)

^b JIWAJI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Bharia; Bheel; Bhilala; Central India; Chhattisgarh; Ethnomedicine; Folklore; Gond; Korku; Madhya pradesh; Medicinal plants; Mobasi; Sahariya; Snakebite

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957756502     PISSN: 09725938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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