An ethnobotanical study of indigenous knowledge on medicinal plants used by the village peoples of Thoppampatti, Dindigul district, Tamilnadu, India

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 408-423

  Sivasankari, Balayogan ^a   Anandharaj, Marimuthu ^a   Gunasekaran, Perumal ^a  

^a GANDHIGRAM RURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Conservation; Ethnobotony; Medicinal Plants; Thoppampatti; Traditional medicine

Indexed keywords

PLANT EXTRACT; POISON;

ACALYPHA INDICA; ALTERNANTHERA SESSILIS; AMARANTHACEAE; ARTICLE; AZADIRACHTA INDICA; BACOPA MONNIERI; BAUHINIA VARIEGATA; BOERHAVIA DIFFUSA; BORASSUS FLABELLIFER; CAESALPINIA; CARROT; COCCINIA GRANDIS; COLOCASIA ESCULENTA; CORIANDER; CYCLEA PELTATA; CYNODON DACTYLON; CYPERUS ROTUNDUS; DATURA METEL; DICHROSTACHYS CINEREA; DOCUMENTATION; EAR NOSE THROAT DISEASE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENICOSTEMA AXILLARE; ETHNOBOTANY; EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; FICUS RACEMOSA; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMIDESMUS INDICUS; HERB; HIBISCUS ROSA-SINENSIS; HOLARRHENA; HOLARRHENA PUBESCENS; HUMAN; INDIA; INDIGOFERA; INDIGOFERA TINCTORIA; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; INJURY; KINO; KNOWLEDGE; LANNEA COROMANDELICA; LEUCAS ASPERA; LIVER DISEASE; LUFFA ACUTANGULA; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MARSILEA; MARSILEA QUADRIFOLIA; MEDICINAL PLANT; METABOLIC DISORDER; MORINGA OLEIFERA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; OCIMUM TENUIFLORUM; OKRA; PAIN; PANICUM; PANICUM SUMATRENSE; PAPAYA; PARASITOSIS; PHYLA NODIFLORA; PLANT STRUCTURES; PONGAMIA PINNATA; PTEROCARPUS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECTUM DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RURAL POPULATION; SANTALUM ALBUM; SARACA ASOCA; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SKIN DISEASE; TRADITIONAL HEALER; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TREE; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; VERBENACEAE; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT; PROCEDURES;

ABELMOSCHUS ESCULENTUS; ACALYPHA INDICA; AZADIRACHTA INDICA; CORIANDRUM SATIVUM; CYNODON DACTYLON; HIBISCUS ROSA-SINENSIS; MORINGA OLEIFERA; OCIMUM TENUIFLORUM;

AGED; ETHNOBOTANY; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT COMPONENTS, AERIAL; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

EID: 84898807860     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: 18727573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2014.02.040     Document Type: Article

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