Traditional uses of medicinal plants among the tribal people in Theni District (Western Ghats), Southern India

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine

Volumn 1, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Jeyaprakash, K ^a   Ayyanar, M ^b   Geetha, K N ^a   Sekar, T ^b  

^a NAGARJUNA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b PACHAIYAPPA S COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Ethnobotany; Medicinal plants; Theni District; Traditional knowledge; Western Ghats

Indexed keywords

PLANT EXTRACT;

ABUTILON INDICUM; ACANTHACEAE; ACHYRANTHES ASPERA; ADHATODA ZEYLANICA; AEGLE MARMELOS; AERVA LANATA; ALBIZIA AMARA; AMARANTHUS SPINOSUS; AMOGEISSUS LATIFOLIA; ANDROGRAPHIS PANICULATA; APONOGETON NATANS; ARGEMONE MEXICANA; ARISTOLOCHIA BRACTEOLATA; ARISTOLOCHIA INDICA; ARTICLE; ASPARAGUS RACEMOSUS; AZADIRACHTA INDICA; BARK; BARLERIA CRISTATA; BARLERIA PRIONITIS; BEGONIA MALABARICA; BERMUDA GRASS; BLEPHARIS MADERASPATENSIS; BOMBOX CEIBA; CARALLUMA ATTENUATA; CARDIOSPERMUM HALICACABUM; CASSIA OBTUSA; CISSUS QUADRANGULARIS; CLEOME GYNANDRA; CLERODENDRUM PHLOMIDIS; COCCINIA GRANDIS; CORALLOCARPUS EPIGDEUS; CUCURBITACEAE; CURCULIGO ORCHIOIDES; CYPRUS ROTUNDUS; DESMODIUM GANGETICUM; DIOSCOREA BULBIFERA; DIOSCOREA OPPOSITIFOLIA; DIOSCOREA PENTAPHYLLA; ECLIPTA ALBA; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOBOTANY; EUPHORBIA HIRTA; EUPHORBIA TIRUCALLI; EVOLVULUS ALSINOIDES; FENUGREEK; FLACOURTIA INDICA; FLOWER; FRUIT; GMELINA ASIATICA; GREWIA HIRSUTA; GYMNEMA SYLVESTRE; HOLARRHENA ANTIDYSENTERICA; HYGROPHILA AURICULATA; INDIA; IONIDIUM SUFFRUTICOSUM; JUSTICIA TRANQUEBARIENSIS; KNOWLEDGE; LEEA INDICA; LEUCUS ASPERA; LEUCUS MARTINICENSIS; LUDVIGIA ACTAVALVIS; MEDICINAL PLANT; MUKIA MADERASPATANA; MURRAYA KOENIGII; OCIMUM TENUIFLORUM; OLAX SCANDENS; PERGULARIA DAEMIA; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLANT SEED; PLANT STEM; PLANT TUBER; PLUMBAGO ZEYLANICA; PORTULACA TUBEROSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RIVEA HYPOCRATERIFORMIS; SAPINDUS EMARGINATUS; SCOPARIA DULCIS; SENNA AURICULATA; SMILAX ZEYLANICA; SOLANUM NIGRUM; SOLANUM SURATTENSE; SOLANUM TRILOBATUM; SOLENA AMPLEXICAULIS; STERCULIA; TERMINALIA ARJUNA; TERMINALIA CATAPPA; THESPESIA LAMPAS; TINOSPORA CARDIFOLIA; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TRIBULUS TERRESTRIS; TRIDAX PROCUMBENS; TRIUMFETTA RHOMBOIDEA; URENA LOBATA; VIGNA VEXILLATA; VITEX NEGUNDO; VITEX PEDUNCULARIS; WATERMELON; WEDELIA CHINENSIS; WITHANIA SOMNIFERA; WOODFORDIA FRUTICOSA; XANTHIUM INDICUM; ZIZIPHUS MAURITIANA;

ACANTHACEAE; CUCURBITACEAE;

EID: 84857935239     PISSN: 22211691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2221-1691(11)60115-9     Document Type: Article

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