Ethnomedical uses of Zingiberaceous plants of Northeast India

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 286-296

  Tushar, ^a   Basak, Supriyo ^a   Sarma, Gajen C ^b   Rangan, Latha ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

^b GAUHATI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Ethnomedicine; Northeast India; Traditional knowledge; Zingiberaceae

Indexed keywords

ALPINIA ALLUGHAS EXTRACT; ALPINIA GALANGA EXTRACT; ALPINIA NIGRA EXTRACT; AMOMUM DEALBATUM EXTRACT; AMOMUM SUBULATUM EXTRACT; AMOMUM ZINGIBER EXTRACT; COSTUS SPECIOSUS EXTRACT; CURCUMA ZEDOARIA EXTRACT; GINGER EXTRACT; GLOBBA CLARKEI EXTRACT; HERBACEOUS AGENT; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINGIBER PURPUREUM EXTRACT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABSCESS; ALPINIA ALLUGHAS; ALPINIA BRACTEATA; ALPINIA MALACCENSIS; ALPINIA NIGRA; AMOMUM AROMATICUM; AMOMUM DEALBATUM; AMOMUM LINGUIFORME; AMOMUM SUBULATUM; AMOMUM ZINGIBER; ANEMIA; ANISAKIASIS; ANOREXIA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; ASCITES; ASTHMA; BLADDER DISEASE; BONE DISEASE; BRONCHITIS; BRONCHUS DISEASE; BURN; CALLOSITY; CARDAMOM; COLIC; COMMON COLD; CONSTIPATION; CONSULTATION; COSTUS SPECIOSUS; COSTUS VARIAGATA; COUGHING; CURCUMA AMADA; CURCUMA ANGUSTIFOLIA; CURCUMA AROMATICA; CURCUMA CAESIA; CURCUMA LONGA; DENTAL CARIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIARRHEA; DRUG ACTIVITY; DYSENTERY; DYSPEPSIA; DYSPNEA; DYSURIA; ELEPHANTIASIS; EPISTAXIS; EYE INFLAMMATION; FEVER; FILARIASIS; FLATULENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GLOBBA CLARKEI; GLOBBA MULTIFLORA; HEART DISEASE; HEDYCHIUM COCCINEUM; HEDYCHIUM CORONARIUM; HELMINTHIASIS; HICCUP; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INDIA; INDIGESTION; INFLAMMATION; INSECT BITE; JAUNDICE; KAEMPFERIA GALANGA; KAEMPFERIA PULCHRA; KAEMPFERIA ROTUNDA; KIDNEY DISEASE; LEPROSY; LEUKODERMA; LUNG CONGESTION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; MOUTH INFLAMMATION; NAUSEA; PARALYSIS; PNEUMONIA; POULTICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SEPSIS; SKIN ALLERGY; SKIN DISEASE; SNAKEBITE; SPLENOMEGALY; SPRAIN; STOMACH DISCOMFORT; STOMACH DISEASE; STOMACH ULCER; STOMATITIS; SWELLING; THROAT DISEASE; TONSILLITIS; TOOTH INFECTION; TOOTH PAIN; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TUBERCULOSIS; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; VOMITING; WORM INFECTION; WOUND; ZINGIBER CASSUMUNAR; ZINGIBER CHRYSANTHUM; ZINGIBER MONTANUM; ZINGIBER PURPUREUM; ZINGIBER ZERUMBET; ZINGIBERACEAE;

ETHNOBOTANY; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; HUMANS; INDIA; PLANT EXTRACTS; ZINGIBERACEAE;

ZINGIBERACEAE;

EID: 77957853693     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2010.08.032     Document Type: Article

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