Documenting the indigenous knowledge on medicinal flora from communities residing near Swat River (Suvastu) and in high mountainous areas in Swat-Pakistan

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 182, Issue , 2016, Pages 67-79

  Shah, Sayed Afzal ^a   Shah, Naseer Ali ^b   Ullah, Shafi ^a   Alam, Muhammad Maqsood ^a   Badshah, Hussain ^a   Ullah, Sana ^a   Mumtaz, Abdul Samad ^a  

^a QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b Department of Electrical Computer Engineering   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Charbagh; Ethnomedicinal plants; Pakistan; Swat (Suavastu); Vincetoxicum arnottianum

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT;

ACANTHACEAE; ADULT; AGED; AMARANTHACEAE; AMARYLLIDACEAE; ANACARDIACEAE; APIACEAE; APOCYNACEAE; ARALIACEAE; ARTICLE; ASTERACEAE; BERBERIDACEAE; BETULACEAE; BRASSICA JUNCEA; BRASSICACEAE; CANNABACEAE; CUCURBITACEAE; EBENACEAE; EQUISETACEAE; EUPHORBIACEAE; FEMALE; FLORA; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; JUGLANDACEAE; LAMIACEAE; LEGUME; LEPIDIUM SATIVUM; LIVER DISEASE; LYTHRACEAE; MALE; MALVACEAE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MELIACEAE; MENTHA ARVENSIS; MORACEAE; MYRTACEAE; NYCTAGINACEAE; OLEACEAE; OXALIDACEAE; PAEONIACEAE; PAPAVERACEAE; PINACEAE; PLANTAGINACEAE; POLYGONACEAE; PORTULACACEAE; PRIMULACEAE; RHAMNACEAE; RIVER; ROSACEAE; RUTACEAE; SAPINDACEAE; SCROPHULARIACEAE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOLANACEAE; THYMELAEACEAE; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; VASCULAR PLANT; VERY ELDERLY; VINCETOXICUM; VINCETOXICUM ARNOTTIANUM; VIOLACEAE; ZYGOPHYLLACEAE; ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; PHYTOTHERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; RIVERS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84958962409     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: 18727573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2016.02.008     Document Type: Article

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