Traditional medicinal practices of a sardar healer of the sardar (Dhangor) community of Bangladesh

Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 10-19

  Rahmatullah, Mohammed ^a   Biswas, Kakoli R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEVELOPMENT ALTERNATIVE   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMPHOR; COCONUT OIL; SULFUR; TURPENTINE OIL;

ACACIA CATECHU; AERVA LANATA; ALLSPICE; ANISOMELES INDICA; ANT; ASTHMA; AZADIRACHTA INDICA; BAMBUSA TULDA; BANGLADESH; BERMUDA GRASS; BORASSUS FLABELLIFER; BRASSICA CAMPESTRIS; CAESALPINIA BONDUC; CALOTROPIS; CAMPONOTUS IRRITANS PALLIDUS; CARDAMOM; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHIRATA; COCCINIA GRANDIS; CYCAS RUMPHII; CYPERUS ROTUNDUS; DATURA STRAMONIUM; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRYNARIA QUERCIFOLIA; DYSPEPSIA; EARTHWORM; ECZEMA; EMBLICA OFFICINALIS; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FURUNCULOSIS; HUMAN; HYSTERIA; IMPOTENCE; INDUCED ABORTION; ISCHIALGIA; JASMINE; JATROPHA CURCAS; JAUNDICE; KIDNEY DISEASE; LEUKORRHEA; LYGODIUM FLEXUOSUM; MEDICINAL PLANT; MENTAL STRESS; MOUTH INFECTION; MUSA SAPIENTUM; MUSACEAE; NOCTURNAL ENURESIS; NUTMEG; OLIGOPHRENIA; OSTEOPOROSIS; PARALYSIS; PHYSICALLY INDUCED STRESS; PIGEONS AND DOVES; PIPER LONGUM; PLANT LEAF; PLANT SEED; PLATANISTA GANGETICA GANGETICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PUERARIA TUBEROSA; RAPESEED; RAUWOLFIA; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SCABIES; SEMEN ABNORMALITY; SESAME; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SNAIL; SOLANUM VIOLACEUM; TERMINALIA ARJUNA; TERMINALIA BELLIRICA; TERMINALIA CHEBULA; TERMINARIA CHEBULA; TINEA; TINOSPORA CORDIFOLIA; TOOTH INFECTION; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

BANGLADESH; HUMANS; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84856303634     PISSN: 10755535     EISSN: 15577708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/acm.2011.0395     Document Type: Review

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