Ethnomedicinal plants used for the treatment of cuts and wounds by Kuruma tribes, Wayanadu districts of Kerala, India

Objective: T o study the ethnomedicinal uses by the Kuruma tribals for discovering new drugs to cure cuts and wounds so as to provid the data scientifically evaluated. Methods: A survey was conducted during M ay 2008 – S eptember 2009 to collect information on medicinal plants used by the Kuruma tri...

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Main Author: Binu Thomas, Rajendran Arumugam, Aravindhan Veerasamy, Sivalingam Ramamoorthy
Format: Printed Book
Published: Asian Pac J Trop Biomed 2014
Subjects:
ETHNOMEDICINE; > TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; > FOLK MEDICINE; > MEDICINAL PLANTS; > TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE; > TRIBAL MEDICINE
Online Access:http://10.26.1.76/ks/004799.pdf
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