Survey and scientific evaluation of medicinal plants used by the Pahan and Teli tribal communities of Natore district, Bangladesh

African Journal of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicines

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 366-373

  Rahmatullah, Mohammed ^a   Khatun, Zubaida ^a   Hasan, Abid ^a   Parvin, Waheda ^a   Moniruzzaman, Md ^a   Khatun, Asha ^a   Mahal, Mostafi Jumrut ^a   Bhuiyan, Md Shaiful Alam ^a   Mou, Sadia Moin ^a   Jahan, Rownak ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEVELOPMENT ALTERNATIVE   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Alternative therapy; Asian medicine; CAM; Ethnomedicine

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT; PLANT EXTRACT; CAM;

AEGLE MARMELOS; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANDROGRAPHIS PANICULATA; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BLEEDING; BURNING SENSATION; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; COUGHING; CURCULIGO ORCHIOIDES; CUSCUTA REFLEXA; CYANTHILLIUM CINEREUM; DYSENTERY; EVALUATION STUDY; FLATULENCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION; JUSTICIA ADHATODA; LIVER DISEASE; MANGO; MEDICINAL PLANT; MIKANIA CORDATA; MORINGA OLEIFERA; OLIGOPHRENIA; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLUMBAGO INDICA; PRESCRIPTION; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SEMEN ABNORMALITY; SNAKEBITE; STREBLUS ASPER; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; VELVET BEAN; WEAKNESS; WITHANIA SOMNIFERA; ETHNOBOTANY; INTERVIEW; PHYTOTHERAPY; POPULATION GROUP; QUESTIONNAIRE; ASIAN MEDICINE; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS;

BANGLADESH; ETHNOBOTANY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; POPULATION GROUPS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

ALTERNATIVE THERAPY; ASIAN MEDICINE; CAM; ETHNOMEDICINE;

EID: 84864398951     PISSN: None     EISSN: 01896016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4314/ajtcam.v9i3.10     Document Type: Article

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