Herbal medicines used to cure various ailments by the inhabitants of Abbottabad district, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan

Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 175-183

  Abbasi, Arshad Mehmood ^a   Ajab Khan, Mir ^a   Ahmed, Mushtaq ^a   Zafar, Muhammad ^a  

^a QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Abbasies; Abbottabad; Awans; Ethnomedicine; Folk medicine; Herbal medicine; Jadoon; Mashwani; Medicinal plants; Pakistan; Qureshis; Sardars; Sheikhs; Syeds; Tanolis; Tareen

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149255022     PISSN: 09725938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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