A comparison of medicinal plant usage by folk medicinal practitioners of two adjoining villages in Lalmonirhat district, Bangladesh

American-Eurasian Journal of Sustainable Agriculture

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 46-66

  Jahan, Farhana Israt ^a   Ul Hasan, Md Rajib ^b   Jahan, Rownak ^a   Seraj, Syeda ^a   Chowdhury, Anita Rani ^a   Islam, Md Tabibul ^a   Khatun, Zubaida ^a   Rahmatullah, Mohammed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEVELOPMENT ALTERNATIVE   (Bangladesh)

^b Beximco Pharmaceuticals   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Asian medicine; CAM; Ethnomedicine; Infectious diseases; Pharmacology

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960438337     PISSN: 19950748     EISSN: 19981074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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