Ethnobotanical appraisal and cultural values of medicinally important wild edible vegetables of Lesser Himalayas-Pakistan

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Abbasi, Arshad M ^a   Khan, Mir A ^b   Shah, Munir H ^b   Shah, Mohammad M ^a   Pervez, Arshad ^a   Ahmad, Mushtaq ^b  

^a Department of Electrical Computer Engineering   (Pakistan)

^b QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Cultural values; Ethno medicinal; Lesser Himalayas; Wild edible vegetables

Indexed keywords

AMARANTHACEAE; AMARANTHUS HYBRIDUS; AMARANTHUS VIRIDIS; ASTERACEAE; BAUHINIA VARIEGATA; CHENOPODIUM ALBUM; CICHORIUM INTYBUS; FICUS CARICA; FICUS PALMATA; MEDICAGO; MEDICAGO POLYMORPHA; PAPILIONOIDEAE; POLYGONACEAE; SOLANUM NIGRUM; VICIA FABA;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EDIBLE PLANT; ETHNOBOTANY; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MALE; PAKISTAN; PHYTOTHERAPY; SOCIOECONOMICS; VEGETABLE;

ETHNOBOTANY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PAKISTAN; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANTS, EDIBLE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VEGETABLES;

EID: 84883692233     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4269-9-66     Document Type: Article

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