An ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plants in the Eastern Himalayan zone of Arunachal Pradesh, India

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 18-25

  Tangjang, Sumpam ^a   Namsa, Nima D ^b   Aran, Chocha ^a   Litin, Anggu ^a  

^a RAJIV GANDHI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b TEZPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Arunachal Pradesh; Folk medicine; Indigenous knowledge; Traditional health practitioner

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT;

ALSTONIA SCHOLARIS; AMPHINEURON OPULENTUM; ANANAS COMOSAS; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; AVERRHOA CARAMBOLA; BEGONIA ROXBURGHII; BEGONIA TESSARICARPA; BURN; CAPSICUM FRUTESCENS; CASSIA ALATA; CASSIA FISTULA; CHINESE CABBAGE; CHRYSOPOGON ACICULATUS; CINNAMOMUM ZEYLANICA; CITRON; CLERODENDRON INFORTUNATUM; CLERODENDRON VENOSUM; CLERODENDRUM INFORTUNATUM; COLOCASIA ESCULENTA; CONSTIPATION; COPTIS TEETA; COUGHING; CURCULIGO CAPITULATA; CURCUMA LONGA; CYATHEA SPINOLUSA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIARRHEA; DRYMARIA CORDATA; EMBLICA OFFICINALIS; ERYTHRINA INDICA; ETHNIC GROUP; EUPATORIUM ODORATUM; FEMALE; FEVER; FRACTURE; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; GARLIC; GASTRITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GINGER; GUAVA; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART DISEASE; HEMIDESMUS INDICUS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INDIA; INSECT BITE; INTERVIEW; JATROPHA CURCAS; JAUNDICE; KALANCHOE PINNATA; KNOWLEDGE; LEUCAS ASPERA; MAIZE; MALARIA; MALE; MANDARIN; MEDICINAL PLANT; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; MIKANIA SCANDENS; MIMOSA PUDICA; MORINGA OLEIFERA; MUSA PARADISIACA; MUSCLE INJURY; NEPHROLITHIASIS; OCIMUM SANCTUM; OROXYLUM INDICUM; OXALIS TRIANGULARIS; PAIN; PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM; PAPAYA; PARALYSIS; PHLOGACANTHUS THYRSIFLORUS; PIPER MULLESUA; PLANT TAXONOMY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SCABIES; SCROPHULARIA DULCIS; SINUSITIS; SKIN DISEASE; SOLANUM INDICUM; SOLANUM SPIRALE; SPILANTHES PANNICULATA; STOMACH DISEASE; STOMACH PAIN; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; SUGARCANE; TEA; TERMINALIA CHEBULA; THORAX PAIN; TINEA; TONSILLITIS; TOOTH PAIN; TUBERCULOSIS; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; URTICA MAGELLANICA; VEIN DISEASE; WOUND; ZANTHOXYLUM RHETSA;

DATA COLLECTION; INDIA; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79952701791     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2010.11.053     Document Type: Article

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