Inherited folk pharmaceutical knowledge of tribal people in the Chittagong hill tracts, Bangladesh

Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 77-89

  Biswas, Animesh ^a   Bari, M A ^a   Roy, Mohashweta ^a   Bhadra, S K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RAJSHAHI   (Bangladesh)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHITTAGONG   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Chakma; Ethnomedicine; Folklore; Marma; Medicinal plants; Traditional knowledge; Tripura

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149248237     PISSN: 09725938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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