Ethnobotanical investigations on plants used in folk medicine in the regions of Constantine and Mila (North-East of Algeria)

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 194, Issue , 2016, Pages 196-218

  Ouelbani, Rayene ^a   Bensari, Souheir ^a   Mouas, Toma Nardjes ^a   Khelifi, Douadi ^a  

^a Universite Mentouri Constantine   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Constantine; Medicinal plants; Mediterranean ethnomedicine; Mila; Quantitative indices

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; ALOE EMODIN; AROMATIC CARBOXYLIC ACID; BETANIN; CARDIAC GLYCOSIDE; CARVACROL; CHRYSOPHANIC ACID; COLCHICINE; COLCHICOSIDE; EMODIN; EUGENOL; FLAVONOID; FLAVONOL DERIVATIVE; GERANYL ACETATE; INDICAXANTHIN; ISOADIANTOL B; ISOADIANTONE; KAEMPFEROL; LIMONENE; LINALOOL; PHYSCION; PINENE; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT; POLYPHENOL DERIVATIVE; QUERCETIN; TERPENOID DERIVATIVE; TERPINENE; THYMOL; THYMOQUINONEC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ACNE; ADULT; AGED; ALGERIA; ALOE; ANACARDIACEAE; ANEMIA; APIACEAE; APPETITE DISORDER; ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA HERBA; ARTICLE; ASTERACEAE; BLOATING; BRASSICACEAE; CAPPARACEAE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARYOPHYLLACEAE; CONSTIPATION; COUGHING; CUCURBITACEAE; CUPRESSACEAE; DIARRHEA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FUNCTION DISORDER; ETHNOBOTANY; EUPHORBIACEAE; EYE INFECTION; EYE INFLAMMATION; FABACEAE; FLATULENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GENTIANACEAE; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HEADACHE; HEAT STROKE; HEMORRHOID; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; IRIDACEAE; LAMIACEAE; LAURACEAE; LYTHRACEAE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; MALVACEAE; MEDICINAL PLANT; METABOLIC DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRAINE; MOUTH DISEASE; MUSCLE DISEASE; MYRTACEAE; NEOPLASM; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; ORIGANUM; ORIGANUM GLANDULOSUM; OSTEOARTHRITIS; POACEAE; POMEGRANATE; RANUNCULACEAE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; ROSACEAE; RUTACEAE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SKIN DISEASE; SORE THROAT; SOUTHERN EUROPE; STOMACH PAIN; TILIA; TILIA CORDATA; ULCER; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; URTICACEAE; VERTIGO; WOUND; ZYGOPHYLLACEAE; BIODIVERSITY; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGERIA; BIODIVERSITY; HUMANS; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

EID: 84987911838     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: 18727573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2016.08.016     Document Type: Article

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