Ethnobotany of medicinal plants among the communities of Alpine and Sub-alpine regions of Pakistan

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 164, Issue , 2015, Pages 186-202

  Kayani, Sadaf ^a   Ahmad, Mushtaq ^a   Sultana, Shazia ^a   Khan Shinwari, Zabta ^a   Zafar, Muhammed ^a   Yaseen, Ghulam ^a   Hussain, Manzoor ^b   Bibi, Tahira ^a,c  

^a QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b HAZARA UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c Sardar Bahadur Khan Womens University   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Alpine Subalpine regions; Ethno botanical indices; Ethnobotany; Pakistan

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT;

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ACHELLIA MILLEFOLIUM; ACONITE; ACONITUM CHASMANTHUM; ACONITUM HETEROPHYLLUM; ACONITUM ROTUNDIFOLIUM; ACONITUM VIOLACEUM; ACTEA SPICATA; ADONIS; ADONIS AESTIVALIS; ADULT; AGED; ALTITUDE; ANAPHALIS MARGARITACEA; ANDROSACE ROTUNDIFOLIA; ANDROSACE SEMIPERVIVOIDES; ANEMONE; ANEMONE OBTUSILOBA; ANEMONE RUPICOLA; ANEMONE TETRASEPALA; ANT STING; AQUILEGA PUBIFLORA; AQUILEGIA; AQUILEGIA FRAGRANS; AQUILEGIA NIVALIS; ARISAEMA; ARISAEMA JACQUEMONTII; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; ASCITES; ASTERACEAE; ASTHMA; ASTRAGALUS GRAHAMIANUS; BALSAMINACEAE; BERBERIS; BERBERIS PSEUDUMBELLATA; BERBERIS VULGARIS; BERGENIA CILIATA; BERGENIA STRACHEYI; BISTORT AAMPLEXICAULIS; BLEEDING; BORAGINACEAE; BRASSICACEAE; BRONCHITIS; BUPLEURUM; BUPLEURUM LONGICAULE; BURN; CALTHA ALBA; CARYOPHYLLACEAE; CERATIUM PULSILLUM; CHENOPODIUM; CHENOPODIUM ALBUM; CHENOPODIUM BOTRYS; CHOLERA; COLIC; CONSTIPATION; CORYDALIS; CORYDALIS GOVANIANA; CORYDALIS STEWARTII; COTONEASTER ACUMINATUS; COTONEASTER MICROPHYLLA; COUGHING; CULTURAL FACTOR; CYNOGLOSSUM LANCEOLATUM; DELPHINIUM NORDHAGENII; DELPHINIUM VESTITUM; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIARRHEA; DRABA NEMOROSA; DYSENTERY; EPHEDRA GERARDIANA; EPILOBIUM; EPILOBIUM LAXUM; ERODIUM CICUTARIUM; ETHNOBOTANY; EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIA WALLICHII; EYE IRRITATION; FEMALE; FEVER; FICUS; FICUS FOVEOLATA; FRACTURE; FRAGARIA; FRAGARIA NUBICOLA; GASTROINTESTINAL PAIN; GENTIAN; GERANIACEAE; GERANIUM; GERANIUM NEPALENSE; GERANIUM WALLICHIANUM; GEUM; GEUM ELATUM; GLANDULIFERA INDIGOFERA HETERANTHA; GOITER; GONORRHEA; GYMNOSPERM; HEADACHE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEART DISEASE; HEAT STROKE; HERACLEUM; HERACLEUM CANDICANS; HUMAN; HYOSCYAMUS; IMPATIENS; IMPATIENS EDGEWORTHII; IMPATIENS GLANDULIFERA; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INDIGESTION; INDIGOFERA; IRIDACEAE; IRIS HOOKERIANA; JAUNDICE; JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS EXCELS; JUNIPERUS SQUAMATA; KIDNEY DISEASE; LAMIACEAE; LARKSPUR; LATHYRUS; LATHYRUS EMODI; LATHYRUS HUMILIS; LATHYRUS PRATENSIS; LAUREOLA SOPHORA MOLLIS; LEGUME; LEPROSY; LEUKORRHEA; LIVER DISEASE; LONICERA; LONICERA CAUCASICA; LONICERA OBOVATA; LONICERA PURPURASCENS; LUNG INFECTION; MALARIA; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MALVA; MALVA NEGLECTA; MATRICARIA RECUTITA; MEDICINAL PLANT; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; MICTURITION DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; MONOCOT; MOUTH DISEASE; MUSCLE CRAMP; NEPETA; NEPETA CLERKEI; NEPETA GOVANIANA; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUBICOLA GENTIANA KURROO; OAK; ONOSMA HISPIDA; OREGANO; OTALGIA; OXALIS; OXALIS ACETOSELLA; OXALIS CORNICULATA; OXYTROPIS; OXYTROPIS LAPPONICA; PAEONIA; PAEONIA EMODI; PAKISTAN; PEDICULARIS; PEDICULARIS PUCTATA; PERSICARIA; PERSICARIA CAPITATA; PICEA SMITHIANA; PINE; PINUS GERARDIANA; PINUS WALLICHIANA; PLANTAGO LANCEOLATA; PLANTAGO MAJOR; PNEUMONIA; PODOPHYLLUM HEXANDRUM; POLYGONACEAE; POLYGONUM; POLYGONUM AMPLEXICAULE; POLYGONUM AVICULARE; POTENTILL AASTROGUINEA; POTENTILLA; POTENTILLA CURVISETA; POTENTILLA GRISAE; POTENTILLA KASHMIRICA; POTENTILLA MONANTHES; POTENTILLA NEPALENSIS; PRIMULA DENTICULATA; PRIMULACEAE; PRUNELLA VULGARIS; QUERCUS SEMECARPIFOLIA; RANUNCULACEAE; RANUNCULUS HIRTELLUS; RANUNCULUS LAETUS; RANUNCULUS STEWARTII; RASH; RHEUM; RHEUM AUSTRALE; RHODENDRON ARBORETUM; RIBES; RIBES ALPESTRE; RIBES GLACIALE; ROSA BRUNONII; ROSA NANOTHAMNUS; ROSA WEBBIANA; ROSACEAE; ROSE; SALIX FLABELLARIS; SAMBUCUS; SAMBUCUS WIGHTIANA; SAUSSUREA; SAUSSUREA COSTUS; SAXIFRAGACEAE; SCORPION STING; SCURVY; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SENECIO; SENECIO CHRYSANTHEMODIES; SENECIO JACQUEMONTIANUS; SIBBALDIA PROCUMBENS; SILENE; SILENE GONOSPERMA; SILENE MORCROOFTIANA; SILENE VULGARIS; SILENEIN EDGEWORTHII; SKIMMIA LAUREOLA; SKIN ALLERGY; SNAKEBITE; SOPHORA; SORE THROAT; SPLEEN DISEASE; SPRAIN; SPRUCE; STELLARIA MEDIA; STOMACH PAIN; STOMACH ULCER; SUNBURN; SWERTIA; SWERTIA CORDATA; TAMARICA RIAELEGANS; TARAXACUM OFFICINALE; THALICTRUM; THALICTRUM CULTRATUM; THALICTRUM PEDUNCULATUM; THORAX DISEASE; THYMUS; THYMUS LINEARIS; TOOTH PAIN; TRADITIONAL HEALER; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TRICHOLEPIS STEWARTII; TUBERCULOSIS; TYPHOID FEVER; VALERIANA; VALERIANA JATAMANSII; VERRUCA VULGARIS; VICIA; VICIA BAKERI; VIOLA; VIOLA BIFLORA; VOMITING; WHITE CLOVER; WILLOW; WOUND; YOUNG ADULT;

GYMNOSPERMAE; LILIOPSIDA; RANUNCULACEAE; ROSACEAE;

ADULT; AGED; ETHNOBOTANY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84923667243     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: 18727573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2015.02.004     Document Type: Article

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