A survey of medicinal and functional food plants used by the folk medicinal practitioners of three villages in Sreepur Upazilla, Magura district, Bangladesh

American-Eurasian Journal of Sustainable Agriculture

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 363-373

  Rahmatullah, Mohammed ^a   Mollik, Md Ariful Haque ^a   Islam, Md Koushikul ^a   Islam, Md Rofiqul ^a   Jahan, Farhana Israt ^a   Khatun, Zubaida ^a   Seraj, Syeda ^a   Chowdhury, Majeedul H ^b   Islam, Farhana ^a   Emdadullah Miajee, Z U M ^a   Jahan, Rownak ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEVELOPMENT ALTERNATIVE   (Bangladesh)

^b NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Folk medicine; Functional food; Magura; Medicinal plants

Indexed keywords

COMBRETACEAE; FABACEAE; LAMIACEAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 79960451035     PISSN: 19950748     EISSN: 19981074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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