The Significance of Ayurvedic Medicinal Plants

Journal of Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 494-501

  Kumar, Syal ^a   Dobos, Gustav J ^a   Rampp, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

action of ayurvedic plants; ayurvedic pharmacology; ayurvedic polyherbal medicine; importance of ayurvedic plants

Indexed keywords

EID: 85020175511     PISSN: 21565872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2156587216671392     Document Type: Review

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