Use of ethnomedicinal plants by the people living around indus river

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2014, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Mussarat, Sakina ^a   Abdel Salam, Nasser M ^b   Tariq, Akash ^a   Wazir, Sultan Mehmood ^c   Ullah, Riaz ^d   Adnan, Muhammad ^a  

^a KOHAT UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c University of Science and Technology   (Pakistan)

^d Government College Ara Khel FR Kohat   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACACIA MODESTA EXTRACT; ACACIA NILOTICA EXTRACT; ALBIZIA LEBBECK EXTRACT; ALOE VERA EXTRACT; AZADIRACHTA INDICA EXTRACT; BEET EXTRACT; CALOTROPIS PROCERA EXTRACT; CAPPARIS DESIDUA EXTRACT; CAPSICUM ANNUM EXTRACT; CARALLUMA TUBERCULATA EXTRACT; CARROT EXTRACT; CHENOPODIUM ALBUM EXTRACT; CHICKPEA EXTRACT; CHICORY EXTRACT; CIRSIUM ARVENSE EXTRACT; CITRON EXTRACT; CLEOME BRACHYCARPA EXTRACT; COLOCYNTH EXTRACT; CONVOLVULUS ARVENSIS EXTRACT; CORDIA DICHOTOMA EXTRACT; CORIANDER EXTRACT; CUCUMBER EXTRACT; CUSCUTA REFLEXA EXTRACT; CYMBOPOGON JAWARANCUSA EXTRACT; DALBERGIA SISSOO EXTRACT; GARLIC EXTRACT; OAT EXTRACT; ONION EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACNE; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BARK; BIOMEDICAL DISCIPLINES, SCIENCE AND ART; BURN; CAPPARIS DESIDUA; CAPSICUM ANNUM; CARALLUMA TUBERCULATA; CLEOME BRACHYCARPA; CONSTIPATION; CORDIA DICHOTOMA; COUGHING; CYMBOPOGON JAWARANCUSA; DALBERGIA; DALBERGIA SISSOO; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSPEPSIA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EVENING DOSAGE; FEMALE; FEVER; FIELD WORK; FLOWER; FRUIT; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEALTH SURVEY; HERB; HOUSEWIFE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTESTINE PAIN; JAUNDICE; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY PAIN; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MIDDLE AGED; MORNING DOSAGE; MORUS ALBA; NEOPLASM; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATION; PAKISTAN; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RIVER; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN INFECTION; SNAKEBITE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TEACHER; TRADITIONAL HEALER; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TYPHOID FEVER; VERY ELDERLY; VOMITING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897493088     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2014/212634     Document Type: Article

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