A survey of medicinal plants used by folk medicinal practitioners of station purbo para village of Jamalpur Sadar Upazila in Jamalpur District, Bangladesh

American-Eurasian Journal of Sustainable Agriculture

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 122-135

  Rahmatullah, Mohammed ^a   Rahman, Md Abdur ^a   Haque, Md Ziaul ^a   Mollik, Md Ariful Haque ^a   Miajee, Z U M Emdad Ullah ^a   Begum, Rahima ^a   Rahman, Md Mahbubur ^a   Nasrin, Dilruba ^a   Seraj, Syeda ^a   Chowdhury, Anita Rani ^a   Khatun, Zubaida ^a   Khatun, Mst Afsana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEVELOPMENT ALTERNATIVE   (Bangladesh)

^b Lincoln College   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Folk medicine; Jamalpur; Medicinal plants

Indexed keywords

ACANTHACEAE; ANIMALIA; ARACEAE; ASTERACEAE; COMBRETACEAE; CUCUMIS SATIVUS; CUCURBITACEAE; EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIACEAE; FABACEAE; HEXAPODA; LAMIACEAE; LILIACEAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MORACEAE; MYRTACEAE; PIPERACEAE; POACEAE; RUTACEAE; SOLANACEAE;

EID: 78049303097     PISSN: 19950748     EISSN: 19981074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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