Plant resources used in Serbian medieval medicine. Ethnobotany and Ethnomedicine

Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1359-1379

  Jarić, Snežana ^a   Mitrović, Miroslava ^a   Karadžić, Branko ^a   Kostić, Olga ^a   Djurjević, Lola ^a   Pavlović, Marija ^a   Pavlović, Pavle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Chilandar Medical Codex; Ethnobotany; Medicinal plants; Medieval Serbian medicine; Pharmacological manuscripts

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939880270     PISSN: 09259864     EISSN: 15735109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10722-014-0118-1     Document Type: Article

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