Traditional uses of medicinal plants against malarial disease by the tribal communities of Lesser Himalayas-Pakistan

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 155, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 450-462

  Shah, Ghulam Mujtaba ^a   Abbasi, Arshad Mehmood ^b,c   Khan, Nadeem ^c   Guo, Xinbo ^b   Khan, Mir Ajab ^d   Hussain, Manzoor ^a   Bibi, Sultan ^e   Nazir, Abdul ^c   Tahir, Adnan Ahmad ^c  

^a HAZARA UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c Tobe Camp University Road Abbottabad   (Pakistan)

^d QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^e District Head Quarter Hospital   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Ethnobotany; Lesser Himalayas; Malaria; Medicinal plants; Pakistan

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHEMISTRY; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; PHYTOTHERAPY; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIMALARIALS; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT PREPARATIONS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84905097993     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: 18727573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2014.05.047     Document Type: Article

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