Tradition in treating taboo: Folkloric medicinal wisdom of the aboriginals of Purulia district, West Bengal, India against sexual, gynaecological and related disorders

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 169, Issue , 2015, Pages 370-386

  Modak, Biplob Kumar ^a   Gorai, Partha ^a   Dhan, Raghunath ^a   Mukherjee, Anuradha ^b   Dey, Abhijit ^c  

^a Sidho Kanho Birsha University   (India)

^b MMHS   (India)

^c PRESIDENCY UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Ethnobiology; Ethnopharmacology; Synergy; Traditional healers; Venereal diseases

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT;

ACACIA; ACACIA CATECHU; ACANTHACEAE; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AMARANTHACEAE; AMARYLLIDACEAE; AMENORRHEA; AMOMUM; AMOMUM SUBULATUM; ANACARDIACEAE; ANNONACEAE; ANT; ANTHOCEPHALUS; APIACEAE; APOCYNACEAE; ARISTOLOCHIACEAE; ARTICLE; ASPARAGACEAE; ASTERACEAE; AZOOSPERMIA; BARK; BLACK CUMIN; BLACK PEPPER; BORAGINACEAE; BUTEA; CALOPHYLLACEAE; CAMPONOTUS COMPRESSUS; CARDAMOM; CHLAMYDIASIS; CINNAMOMUM ZEYLANICUM; CLIMBER; CLOVE; COMBRETACEAE; CONVOLVULACEAE; CROSSOPRIZA LYONI; CUCURBITACEAE; CUMIN; CYPERACEAE; DIOSCOREACEAE; DOUGH; DYSMENORRHEA; EUPHORBIACEAE; FABACEAE; FENUGREEK; FICUS; FICUS HISPIDA; FISH; FLOWER; FRUIT; GARLIC; GINGER; GONOCOCCAL URETHRITIS; GONORRHEA; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HERB; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPOXIDACEAE; IMPOTENCE; INDIA; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INFERTILITY; LAMIACEAE; LAURACEAE; LECYTHIDACEAE; LEUKORRHEA; LYGODIUM; LYTHRACEAE; MALVACEAE; MARSILEACEAE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MELIACEAE; MENISPERMACEAE; MENORRHAGIA; METRITIS; MORACEAE; MYRTACEAE; NELUMBONACEAE; OLIGOSPERMIA; PANDANACEAE; PAPAVERACEAE; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTION; PASTE; PEDALIACEAE; PHYLLANTHACEAE; PIPER (PLANT); PIPER CUBEBA; PIPERACEAE; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLANT SEED; PLANT STEM; PLANTS BY OUTER APPEARANCE; POD; PREMATURE EJACULATION; PUNTIUS; RANUNCULACEAE; RHAMNACEAE; RHIZOME; ROSACEAE; RUBIACEAE; RUTACEAE; SAPINDACEAE; SARSAPARILLA; SCABIES; SEXUAL DEBILITY; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SHOOT; SHRUB; SMILACACEAE; SNAKE; SOLANACEAE; SOLANUM; SPERMATORRHOEA; SPERMATURIA; SPIDER; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; SYPHILIS; TABOO; TERMINALIA; TRACHYSPERMUM AMMI; TRADITIONAL HEALER; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TREE; TREE TRUNK; TRICHOMONIASIS; UTERINE CERVICITIS; VAGINITIS; VINE; XANTHORRHOEACEAE; ZINGIBER; ZINGIBERACEAE; ANIMAL; FEMALE; FOLKLORE; MENSTRUATION DISTURBANCES; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; VAGINAL DISEASES;

ANIMALIA; FABACEAE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FOLKLORE; HUMANS; INDIA; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MENSTRUATION DISTURBANCES; PLANT PREPARATIONS; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TABOO; VAGINAL DISEASES;

EID: 84929493829     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: 18727573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2015.04.020     Document Type: Article

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