Ethnobotanical survey of coastal medicinal plants along the Palk Strait coast of south India

Journal of Herbs, Spices and Medicinal Plants

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 69-84

  Ravikumar, Sundaram ^a,c   Gokulakrishnan, Ramasamy ^a   Palaniselvan, Gopi ^a   Vinoth, Ramar ^b   Vijayakumar, Raju ^a   Umapandi, Manickam ^a  

^a ALAGAPPA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c Thondi Campus ^*  (India)

Author keywords

herbal medicine; human disease; traditional medicine

Indexed keywords

ACALYPHA INDICA EXTRACT; ACHYRANTHES ASPERA EXTRACT; ADHATODA VASICA EXTRACT; ALOE VERA EXTRACT; ANISOMELES MALABARICA EXTRACT; CASSIA AURICULATA EXTRACT; CASSIA JAVANICA EXTRACT; CATHARANTHES ROSEUS EXTRACT; COLEUS AROMATICUS EXTRACT; CYPERUS ROTUNDER EXTRACT; DELONIX ELATA EXTRACT; ECLIPTA ALBA EXTRACT; EMBLICA OFFICINALIS EXTRACT; ENICOSTEMA AXILLARE EXTRACT; ENICOSTEMA LITTORALE EXTRACT; EUPHORBIA HIRTA EXTRACT; EVALUVLS ALSINOIDES EXTRACT; GLYCYRRHIZA GLABRA EXTRACT; LAWSONIA INERMIS EXTRACT; LEUCAS ASPERA EXTRACT; MANGIFERA INDICA EXTRACT; OCIMUM BASILICUM EXTRACT; OCIMUM SANCTUM EXTRACT; OPUNTIA DILLENII EXTRACT; PHYLLANTHUS NIRURI EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; SESBANIA GRANDIFLORA EXTRACT; TAMARINDUS INDICA EXTRACT; TERMINALIA ARJUNA EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

COASTAL ZONE; DIABETES; DIARRHEAL DISEASE; DISEASE CONTROL; ETHNOBOTANY; HERB; LEAF; MEDICINAL PLANT; SHRUB; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

ABSCESS; ANGIOSPERM; APHTHOUS ULCER; ARTICLE; BARK; BLEEDING; BODY TEMPERATURE; COUGHING; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIARRHEA; DOG BITE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ETHNOBOTANY; EUPHORBIA; EYE DISEASE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HERB; INDIGESTION; JAUNDICE; LEGUME; MANGO; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; PLANT LEAF; SEASHORE; SHRUB; SKIN DISEASE; TOOTH PAIN; TREE; TUBERCULOSIS; ULCER; VOMITING; WOUND;

INDIA; PALK STRAIT; RAMANATHAPURAM; TAMIL NADU;

EUPHORBIACEAE; FABACEAE; LAMIACEAE; SOLANACEAE;

EID: 79958783080     PISSN: 10496475     EISSN: 15403580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10496475.2011.584823     Document Type: Article

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