Ethno medicine and healthcare practices among Nicobarese of Car Nicobar - An indigenous tribe of Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 158, Issue PART A, 2014, Pages 18-24

  Chander, M Punnam ^a   Kartick, C ^a   Gangadhar, J ^b   Vijayachari, P ^a  

^a Research and Training in Leptospirosis   (India)

^b SRI VENKATESWARA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Car Nicobar; Herbal medicine; Informant consensus form; Nicobarese; Traditional knowledge practitioner; Use value

Indexed keywords

EXCIPIENT; HERBACEOUS AGENT; PLANT EXTRACT; WATER;

ACANTHACEAE; AMARANTHACEAE; ANACARDIACEAE; ANNONACEAE; APOCYNACEAE; ARECACEAE; ARTICLE; ASTERACEAE; BORAGINACEAE; CAESAPINIACEAE; CAPPARACEAE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELASTRACEAE; CLUSIACEAE; COLUBRINA; CONVOLVULACEAE; CUCURBITACEAE; CYPERACEAE; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; EUPHORBIACEAE; FABACEAE; FRUIT; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; GNETACEAE; GOODENIACEAE; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HERNANDIACEAE; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFESTATION; INJURY; LAMIACEAE; LEEACEAE; LEGUME; LYGODIACEAE; LYTHRACEAE; MALVACEAE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MELASTOMATACEAE; MELIACEAE; MENISPERMACEAE; MIMOSACEAE; MORINDA CITRIFOLIA; MORINGACEAE; MYRTACEAE; NICOBARESE (PEOPLE); OLEACEAE; ORCHIDACEAE; PAIN; PASSIFLORACEAE; PIPERACEAE; PITTOSPORACEAE; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; POACEAE; PRIMULACEAE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RHAMNACEAE; RHIZOPHORACEAE; RUBIACEAE; RUSCACEAE; RUTACEAE; SALICACEAE; SAPINDACEAE; SCROPHULARIACEAE; SKIN DISEASE; SOLANACEAE; TABERNAEMONTANA; ULMACEAE; VERBENACEAE; WEAKNESS; ZINGIBERACEAE;

EID: 84908556115     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: 18727573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2014.09.046     Document Type: Article

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