Ethnobotany of medicinal plants in the Thar Desert (Sindh) of Pakistan

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 163, Issue , 2015, Pages 43-59

  Yaseen, Ghulam ^a   Ahmad, Mushtaq ^a   Sultana, Shazia ^a   Suleiman Alharrasi, Ahmed ^b   Hussain, Javid ^b   Zafar, Muhammad ^a   Shafiq Ur Rehman, ^c  

^a QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NIZWA   (Oman)

^c Kohat University of Science and Technolog   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Ethnobotany; Medicinal plants; Pakistan; Quantitative analyses; Thar Desert

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT;

ABRUS; ABUTILON INDICUM; ACACIA JACQUEMONTII; ACACIA NILOTICA; ACACIA SENEGAL; ACHYRANTHES ASPERA; ADULT; AERVA; AERVA JAVANICA; AGED; ALOE VERA; AMARANTHACEAE; AMARANTHUS; AMARANTHUS GRAECIZANS; AMARANTHUS SPINOSUS; AMARANTHUS VIRIDIS; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; ASPARAGUS; ASPARAGUS ADSCENDENS; ASPHODELUS TENUIFOLIUS; ASTHMA; AZADIRACHTA INDICA; BARLERIA ACANTHOIDES; BOERHAVIA; BOERHAVIA PROCUMBENS; BRAIN DISEASE; CALAMINTHA DEBILIS; CALOTROPIS PROCERA; CAPPARIS DECIDUA; CASSIA; CASSIA ANGUSTIFOLIA; CELOSIA ARGENTEA; CENCHRUS; CENCHRUS BIFLORUS; CITRULLUS; CLERODENDRUM; CLERODENDRUM PHLOMIDIS; COLOCYNTH; COMMIPHORA; COMMIPHORA STOCKSIANA; COMMIPHORA WIGHTII; CONSTIPATION; CONVOLVULACEAE; CONVOLVULUS; CONVOLVULUS ARVENSIS; CORCHORUS DEPRESSUS; CORCHORUS TRIDENS; CUCURBITACEAE; CYNODON DACTYLON; CYPERUS; CYPERUS LONGUS; DATURA INNOXIA; DESERT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIARRHEA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASE; DOCUMENTATION; ETHNOBOTANY; EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIA CADUCIFOLIA; EUPHORBIA GRANULATE; EUPHORBIA HIRTA; EUPHORBIA PROSTRATE; EUPHORBIA THYMIFOLIA; EUPHORBIACEAE; FEVER; FRACTURE; FURUNCULOSIS; GONORRHEA; GUAR; HABITAT; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HELIOTROPIUM; HELIOTROPIUM CURASSAVICUM; HELIOTROPIUM EUROPAEUM; HEMORRHOID; HEPATITIS; HERB; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; IPOMOEA; IPOMOEA CORNEA; JAUNDICE; JUTE; LAUNAEA PROCUMBENS; LEGUME; LEUKORRHEA; LUFFA AEGYPTIACA; LUNG DISEASE; MALVACEAE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MELON; MOMORDICA BALSAMINA; MORINGA; MORINGA CONCANENSIS; MORINGA OLEIFERA; MORINGACEAE; MORINGACEAE MUKIA; NAIL DISEASE; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NOCTURNAL ENURESIS; NONHUMAN; NYCTAGINACEAE; PAKISTAN; PORTULACA OLERACEA; POWDER; SALVADORA PERSICA; SCIATICA; SCORPION STING; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SESAME; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SKIN DISEASE; SNAKEBITE; SOLANACEAE; SOLANUM INCANUM; SOLANUM VIRGINIANUM; SONCHUS ASPER; SPECIES; SPLENOMEGALY; STOMACH ULCER; TARAXACUM OFFICINALE; TRADITIONAL HEALER; TRIBULUS TERRESTRIS; URETER STONE; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; VIGNA; VIGNA RADIATE; WATERMELON; WITHANIA SOMINIFERA; ZALEYA PENTANDRA; ZIZIPHUS; ZIZIPHUS NUMMULARIA; DESERT CLIMATE; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYTOTHERAPY; YOUNG ADULT;

AMARANTHACEAE; CUCURBITACEAE; EUPHORBIACEAE;

ADULT; AGED; DESERT CLIMATE; ETHNOBOTANY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922323463     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: 18727573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2014.12.053     Document Type: Article

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