Ethnobotanical survey of common medicinal plants used by people of district Mirpur, AJK, Pakistan

Journal of Medicinal Plant Research

Volumn 5, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 4493-4498

  Mahmood, Adeel ^a   Qureshi, Rizwana Aleem ^a   Mahmood, Aqeel ^b   Sangi, Yasmin ^c   Shaheen, Hamayun ^a   Ahmad, Ijaz ^a   Nawaz, Zerqa ^a  

^a QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SARGODHA   (Pakistan)

^c F G College for Girls   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Ethnobotanical studies; Medicinal plants; Mirpur AJK

Indexed keywords

ACHYRANTHUS ASPERA EXTRACT; BOERHAAVIA DIFFUSA EXTRACT; CORONOPUS DIDYMUS EXTRACT; HERBACEOUS AGENT; PLANT EXTRACT; SOLANUM SURRATTENSE EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACHYRANTHUS ASPERA; ADIANTUM INCISUM; AERUA JAVANICA; ARGEMONE MEXICANA; ARTHROPATHY; ARTICLE; BLADDER STONE; BOERHAVIA DIFFUSA; BONE DISEASE; BRONCHITIS; BURN; BUTEA MONOSPERMA; CALOTROPIS PROCERA; CAPPARIS DECIDUA; CARISSA OPAQA; CHENOPODIUM ALBUM; COMMON COLD; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONOPUS DIDYMUS; COUGHING; CROTON BONPLANDIANUS; CROZOPHORA TINCTORIA; CYMBOPOGON CITRATUS; CYNODON DATYLON; DIARRHEA; DRUG INDICATION; ENTEROPATHY; ETHNOBOTANY; EUPHORBIA HIRTA; EUPHORBIA PROSTRATA; FAGONIA CRETICA; FEVER; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; GINGIVA DISEASE; HAIR DISEASE; HEADACHE; HELIOTROPIUM EUROPAEUM; HEMORRHOID; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTOXICATION; JAUNDICE; LIVER DISEASE; MALE; MEASLES; MEDICINAL PLANT; MYALGIA; NEPHROLITHIASIS; OXALIS CORNICULATA; PAIN; PAKISTAN; PARALYSIS; PARTHENIUM HYSTEROPHORUS; PERIODONTITIS; PNEUMONIA; POXVIRUS INFECTION; PREMATURE EJACULATION; PRURITUS; PUS; RASH; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RICINUS COMMUNIS; SENNA OCCIDENTALIS; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SKIN DISEASE; SMALLPOX; SNAKEBITE; SOLANUM INCANUM; SOLANUM NIGRUM; SOLANUM SURRATTENSE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STOMACH DISCOMFORT; STOMACH DISEASE; STOMACH PAIN; TEPHROSEA PURPUREA; TOOTH DISEASE; TOOTH PAIN; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TYPHOID FEVER; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WEAKNESS; WITHANA COAGULANS; ZANTHOXYLUM AROMATUS;

EID: 81555217913     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19960875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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