Medicinal folk recipes used as traditional phytotherapies in district Dera Ismail Khan, KPK, Pakistan

Pakistan Journal of Botany

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1453-1462

  Marwat, Sarfaraz Khan ^a   Fazal Ur Rehman, ^a   Khan, Mir Ajab ^b   Ahmad, Mushtaq ^b   Zafar, Muhammad ^b   Ghulam, Said ^a  

^a GOMAL UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

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