Consensus of local knowledge on medicinal plants among traditional healers in Mayiladumparai block of Theni District, Tamil Nadu, India

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 354-362

  Pandikumar, P ^a   Chellappandian, M ^a   Mutheeswaran, S ^a   Ignacimuthu, S ^a  

^a LOYOLA COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Consensus analysis; India; Tamil Nadu; Theni District; Traditional medicine

Indexed keywords

ABUTILON INDICUM; ACANTHACEAE; ADULT; AERVA LANATA; AGED; AMARANTHACEAE; ANGIOSPERM; ARECACEAE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BASIL; BLEPHARIS MADERASPATENSIS; BORASSUS FLEBELLIFER; CONSENSUS; ETHNOBOTANY; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; FEMALE; GINGER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIA; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; OCIMUM TENUIFLORUM; PHYLLANTHUS; PONGAMIA; PONGAMIA PINNATA; RUTA GRAVEOLENS; RUTACEAE; SENNA; SENNA ANGUSTIFOLIA; SOLANUM; SOLANUM TRILOBATUM; TERMINALIA CHEBULA; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

ADULT; AGED; ETHNOBOTANY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

ABUTILON INDICUM; AERVA LANATA; BLEPHARIS MADERASPATENSIS; BORASSUS; OCIMUM TENUIFLORUM; PONGAMIA PINNATA; RUTA GRAVEOLENS; SENNA ALEXANDRINA; SOLANUM TRILOBATUM; TERMINALIA CHEBULA;

EID: 79952700146     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2010.12.027     Document Type: Article

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