Medical ethnobotany of the Albanian Alps in Kosovo

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Volumn 8, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Mustafa, Behxhet ^a   Hajdari, Avni ^a   Krasniqi, Feriz ^b   Hoxha, Esat ^a   Ademi, Hatixhe ^a   Quave, Cassandra L ^c   Pieroni, Andrea ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRISHTINA   (Serbia)

^b Kosovo Academy of Sciences and Arts   (Albania)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GASTRONOMIC SCIENCES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Albanian alps; Ethnobotany; Kosovo; Medicinal plants; Traditional medicine

Indexed keywords

ASTERACEAE; CARDUUS; CARDUUS NUTANS; ECHINOPS BANNATICUS; LAMIACEAE; ORLAYA GRANDIFLORA; ROSACEAE;

PLANT EXTRACT;

AGED; ALBANIA; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOBOTANY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MIDDLE AGED; MONTENEGRO (REPUBLIC); PHYTOTHERAPY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RURAL POPULATION; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; YUGOSLAVIA;

AGED; ALBANIA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; ETHNOBOTANY; FEMALE; FEMALE UROGENITAL DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MALE UROGENITAL DISEASES; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; MONTENEGRO; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; RURAL POPULATION; YUGOSLAVIA;

EID: 84856188516     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4269-8-6     Document Type: Article

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