Ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plants in northeastern of Algeria

Phytomedicine

Volumn 36, Issue , 2017, Pages 68-81

  Bouasla, Asma ^a,b   Bouasla, Ihcène ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUK AHRAS   (Algeria)

^b BADJI MOKHTAR UNIVERSITY   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Algeria; Ethnobotanical; Medicinal plants; Pharmacopoeia; Traditional

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT;

ACNE; ADULT; AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM; AGE; AGED; AJUGA; AJUGA IVA; ALGERIA; ALLERGY; ALLIUM AMPELOPRESUM; ALOYSIA CITRODORA; AMMI VISNAGA; ANEMIA; ANISE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARCTIUM ATLANTICUM; ARTEMISIA ABSINTHIUM; ARTEMISIA HERB ALBA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTHRITIS; ASPHODELUS MICROCARPUS; ASTHMA; ATROPA BELLADONA; AUBERGINE; AUDITORY TUBE; BLACK CUMIN; BLACKBERRY; BLEEDING; BRASSICA OLERACEA; BRONCHITIS; BURN; CACTUS; CAMELLIA SINENSIS; CAPSICUM ANNUUM; CARDAMOM; CARDOON; CARROT; CASSIA ACUTIFOLIA; CELERY; CERATONIA SILIQUA; CHAMAEMELUM; CHAMAEMELUM NOBILE; CINNAMONUM VERNUM; CIRCULATION; CLOVE; COMMON COLD; CONSTIPATION; COUGHING; CRATAEGUS OXYACANTHE; CROCUS SATIVUS; CUCUMBER; CUMIN; CUPRESSUS; CUPRESSUS SEMPERVIRENCE; CURCUMA LONGA; CYDONIA OBLANGA; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIARRHEA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DYSMENORRHEA; ECZEMA; EDEMA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPISTAXIS; ERUCA SATIVA; ETHNOBOTANY; EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS; EUONYMUS JAPONICUS; EYE INFECTION; FASEOLUS VULGARIS; FEMALE; FICUS; FICUS INDICA; FIG; FLATULENCE; FLAX; FOENICULUM; FOENICULUM OFFICINALE; FRACTURE; FRAGARIA; FRAGARIA VESCA; FUCUS VESICULOSUS; GARLIC; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; GERMANDER; GINGER; GINGIVA PAIN; GLOBULARIA ALYPUM; HAIR; HAIR LOSS; HEART INFARCTION; HEMORRHOID; HORDEUM VULGAR; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; INCOME; INFERTILITY; INFLUENZA; INJURY; INSOMNIA; INTESTINE ULCER; INULA VISCOSA; JUGLANS REGIA; JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS PHOENICIA; KIDNEY DISEASE; LAURUS NOBILIS; LAVANDULA STOECHAS; LAVENDER; LAWSONIA INEMIS; LENS CULINARUS; LEPIDIUM SATIVUM; LIVER DISEASE; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; MALVA; MALVA SYLVESTRIS; MEDICINAL PLANT; MEDICINAL SPECIES; MELISSA OFFICINALIS; MEMORY; MENTHA PIPERITA; MENTHA PULEGIUM; MIDDLE AGED; MUSKMELON; MYCOSIS; MYRTLE; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NERIUM OLEANDER; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUTMEG; OLIVE TREE; ONION; OTITIS; OTITIS MEDIA; PARSLEY; PEACH; PEGANUM HARMALA; PHOBIA; PINUS HALEPENSIS; PISTACIA LENTISCUS; PLANT LEAF; POMEGRANATE; POPULUS NIGRA; POTATO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATITIS; QUERCUS PENDONCULATA; RESPIRATORY TRACT ALLERGY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RICINUS COMMUNIS; ROSEMARY; RUTA GRAVIDENS; SAFFLOWER; SALVIA OFFICINALIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINAPIS ALBA; SKIN ALLERGY; SKIN CARE; SKIN INFECTION; SKIN IRRITATION; SOCIAL STATUS; SOUR ORANGE; SPERGULARIA RUBRA; STOMACH PAIN; STOMACH ULCER; STONE FORMATION; THAPSIA; THAPSIA GARGANICA; THYME; TILIA CORDATA; TOOTH PAIN; TRIGONELLA GRAECUM FOENUM; ULCER; ULEX ENROPAEUS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URTICA DIOICA; VARICOSIS; VERTIGO; VESICULAR LITHIASIS; YOUNG ADULT; AFRICAN MEDICINE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; PHYTOTHERAPY; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; ALGERIA; ETHNOBOTANY; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 85032856813     PISSN: 09447113     EISSN: 1618095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phymed.2017.09.007     Document Type: Review

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