Ethnobotany of medicinal plants in district Mastung of Balochistan province-Pakistan

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 157, Issue , 2014, Pages 79-89

  Bibi, Tahira ^a,b   Ahmad, Mushtaq ^a   Bakhsh Tareen, Rsool ^c   Mohammad Tareen, Niaz ^c,d   Jabeen, Rukhsana ^b   Rehman, Saeed Ur ^c   Sultana, Shazia ^a   Zafar, Muhammad ^a   Yaseen, Ghulam ^a  

^a QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b Sardar Bahadur Khan Women University Quetta   (Pakistan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BALOCHISTAN   (Pakistan)

^d Bureau of Curriculum and Extension Centre Quetta   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Baluchistan; Ethnobotany; Mastung; Medicinal plants; Pakistan

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT;

ACHILLEA; ACHILLEA WELHEMSII; ACROPTILON REPENS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CARALLUMA TUBERCULATA; COLOCYNTH; ETHNOBOTANY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MALVA NEGLECTA; MEDICINAL PLANT; MENTHA LONGIFOLIA; NONHUMAN; OPEN ENDED QUESTIONNAIRE; PAKISTAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SERIPIDIUM QUETTENSE; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHEMISTRY; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATA COLLECTION; ETHNOBOTANY; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; PLANT PREPARATIONS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907886407     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: 18727573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2014.08.042     Document Type: Article

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