Use of traditional herbal remedies by Thai immigrant women in Sweden

Traveling Cultures and Plants: The Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacy of Human Migrations

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages 104-121

  Lundberg, Pranee C ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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