Ethnobotanical survey of medicinally important shrubs and trees of Himalayan region of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 166, Issue , 2015, Pages 340-351

  Rashid, Sofia ^a   Ahmad, Mushtaq ^a   Zafar, Muhammad ^a   Sultana, Shazia ^a   Ayub, Muhammad ^a   Khan, Mir Ajab ^a   Yaseen, Ghulam ^a  

^a QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Azad Jammu and Kashmir Pakistan; Ethnobotany; Himalayan region; Medicinal plants

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT; LATEX; PLANT EXTRACT;

ABIES; ABIES PINDROW; ABORTION; ABSCESS; ACACIA CATECHU; ACACIA MODESTA; ACACIA NILOTICA; ACANTHACEAE; ADULT; AESCULUS; AESCULUS INDICA; AILANTHUS; AILANTHUS ALTISSIMA; ALBIZIA LEBBECK; ALLERGY; AMENORRHEA; ANEMIA; APOCYNACEAE; APRICOT; ARECACEAE; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BARK; BAUHINIA VARIEGATA; BERBERIS; BERBERIS LYCIUM; BLADDER DISEASE; BLADDER STONE; BONE DISEASE; BRONCHITIS; BURN; BUTEA MONOSPERMA; CAESALPINACEAE; CALLOSITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARISSA OPACA; CASSIA; CASSIA FISTULA; CEDRELA; CEDRELA SERRATA; CEDRUS; CEDRUS DEODARA; CELASTRACEAE; CELTIS AUSTRALIS; CHOLERA; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; CHRONIC DIARRHEA; COLIC; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONSTIPATION; COUGHING; CRATAEGUS LAEVIGATA; DALBERGIA; DALBERGIA SISSOO; DEBREGEASIA SAENEB; DEMOGRAPHY; DERMATITIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIARRHEA; DIOSPYROS; DIOSPYROS LOTUS; DODONAEA VISCOSA; DYSENTERY; DYSPEPSIA; EBENACEAE; ECZEMA; ELAEAGNACEAE; ELAEAGNUS PARVIFLORA; EMBLICA OFFICINALIS; ENTEROPATHY; EPISTAXIS; ETHNOBOTANY; EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIA ROYLEANA; EUPHORBIACEAE; EYE DISEASE; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FAGACEAE; FEMALE; FEVER; FICUS; FICUS BENGHALENSIS; FICUS PALMATE; FICUS RACEMOSA; FICUS RELIGIOSA; FIG; FLACOURTIA INDICA; FLOWER; FRUIT; GINGIVA BLEEDING; GONORRHEA; GOUT; HAIR DISEASE; HEADACHE; HEART DISEASE; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; HYSTERIA; INDIGESTION; JASMINE; JASMINUM OFFICINALE; JAUNDICE; JUGLANS REGIA; JUJUBE; JUSTICIA ADHATODA; KNOWLEDGE; LANTANA CAMARA; LEGUME; LEPROSY; LEUKORRHEA; LIVER CONGESTION; LIVER DISEASE; LOW BACK PAIN; LUNG INFECTION; LYTHRACEAE; MALARIA; MALE; MALLOTUS PHILIPPINENSIS; MALUS PUMILA; MALVACEAE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MEDICINAL SPECIES; MELIA AZEDARACH; MELIACEAE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRAINE; MIMOSACEAE; MORACEAE; MORUS ALBA; MORUS NIGRA; MOUTH ULCER; MUSCLE DISEASE; MYOSITIS; MYRSINE AFRICANA; NAIL DISEASE; NEOPLASM; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NERIUM OLEANDER; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OAK; OLEA FERRUGINEA; OLEACEAE; OLIVE TREE; OPUNTIA; OPUNTIA DILLENII; OTOSTEGIA LIMBATA; PAKISTAN; PARALYSIS; PASTE; PEACH; PEAR; PERIPLOCA; PERIPLOCA APHYLLA; PERSIMMON; PERTUSSIS; PHOENIX SYLVESTRIS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PINACEAE; PINE; PINUS ROXBURGHII; PINUS WALLICHIANA; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLANT SEED; PLANT STEM; PLATANUS ORIENTALIS; PLUM; POMEGRANATE; POWDER; PRIMULACEAE; PYRUS PASHIA; QUERCUS FLORIBUNDA; QUERCUS LEUCOTRICHOPHORA; RASH; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RHAMNACEAE; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RICINUS COMMUNIS; ROSA MOSCHATA; ROSACEAE; ROSE; RUBUS; RUBUS ULMIFOLIUS; SALMALIA MALABARICA; SCABIES; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SHRUB; SIDA CORDIFOLIA; SIMAROUBACEAE; SINUSITIS; SKIN CANCER; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN INFECTION; SORE THROAT; STOMACH PAIN; STOMACH ULCER; SWELLING; TETANUS; THORAX PAIN; THROAT DISEASE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TOOTH PAIN; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TREE; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOUS LYMPHADENITIS; TYPHOID FEVER; ULCER; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; URTICACEAE; VERBENACEAE; VIBURNUM; VIBURNUM COTINIFOLIUM; VITACEAE; VITEX NEGUNDO; WITHANIA SOMNIFERA; WOODFORDIA; WOODFORDIA FRUTICOSA; ZANTHOXYLUM; ZANTHOXYLUM ARMATUM; ZIZIPHUS; ZIZIPHUS NUMMULARIA; ZIZIPHUS OXYPHYLLA; ZIZIPHUS SATIVA; CHEMISTRY; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; YOUNG ADULT;

ABIES PINDROW; ACACIA NILOTICA; ACANTHACEAE; APOCYNACEAE; BAUHINIA VARIEGATA; CAESALPINIOIDEAE; CEDRELA SERRATA; EBENACEAE; EUPHORBIACEAE; FABACEAE; FAGACEAE; JUGLANS REGIA; JUSTICIA ADHATODA; LYTHRACEAE; MORACEAE; OLEACEAE; PAPILIONOIDEAE; PHYLLANTHUS EMBLICA; PINACEAE; PINUS ROXBURGHII; PUNICA GRANATUM; RHAMNACEAE; ROSACEAE; VERBENACEAE;

ADULT; ETHNOBOTANY; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TREES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84926289485     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: 18727573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2015.03.042     Document Type: Article

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