Ethnopharmacobotanical study on the medicinal plants used by herbalists in Sulaymaniyah Province, Kurdistan, Iraq

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Ahmed, Hiwa M ^a  

^a SULAIMANI POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Iraq)

Author keywords

Ethnobotany; Ethnopharmacology; Kurdistan; Medicinal plants; Silemani

Indexed keywords

PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ETHNOBOTANY; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRAQ; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MIDDLE AGED; PHYTOTHERAPY; PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; ETHNOBOTANY; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; IRAQ; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT PREPARATIONS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84957837176     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13002-016-0081-3     Document Type: Article

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