Elemental analysis of some medicinal plants used in traditional medicine by atomic absorption spectrophotometer (AAS)

Journal of Medicinal Plants Research

Volumn 4, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 1987-1990

  Zafar, Muhammad ^a   Khan, Mir Ajab ^a   Ahmad, Mushtaq ^a   Jan, Gul ^a   Sultana, Shazia ^a   Ullah, Kifayat ^a   Marwat, Sarfaraz Khan ^a   Ahmad, Farooq ^b   Jabeen, Asma ^c   Nazir, Abdul ^a   Abbasi, Arshad Mehmood ^a   Ur Rehman, Zia ^a   Ullah, Zahid ^a  

^a QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b PMAS ARID AGRICULTURE UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c FATIMA JINNAH WOMEN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Elemental analysis; Medicinal plants and atomic absorption spectrophotometer

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; CALCIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; HERBACEOUS AGENT; IRON; LEAD; LITHIUM; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; NICKEL; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; ZINC;

ARGEMONE; ARGEMONE MEXICANA; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BRONCHOSPASM; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CNICUS; CNICUS BENEDICTUS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DIABETES MELLITUS; FAGONIA INDICA; FEVER; FRUIT; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEPATITIS; LIVER DISEASE; MEDICINAL PLANT; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT SEED; PRURITUS; SILYBUM MARIANUM; SKIN DISEASE; SOLANUM; SOLANUM SURATENSE; SORE THROAT; STOMACH DISEASE; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; VIRUS INFECTION; ZYGOPHYLLACEAE;

EID: 78549283439     PISSN: 19960875     EISSN: 19960875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5897/jmpr10.081     Document Type: Article

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