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| Title: | Documenting Grandmas’ prescriptions for skin ailments in Valsad district, Gujarat |
| Authors: | Shah, Brijesh
Sheth, Falguni
Parabia, Minoo |
| Keywords: | Skin disease
Ethnomedicine
Grandma’s prescriptions |
| Issue Date: | Apr-2011 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| IPC Code: | Int. Cl.8: A61K36/00, A61P1/02, A61P17/00, A61P17/02, A61P17/14, A61P29/00, A61P35/00 |
| Abstract: | The four years survey of 207 persons of Valsad district yielded
about 2,177 remedies for different ailments from tribes and the rural populace
of the district. The information was classified in to 23 disease groups based
on their utility. The paper emphasizes information gathered for one of such
groups, skin ailments. There were about 54 recipes. The detailed analysis of
the data includes recipes, dosages and diet restrictions. Since the information
collected was the inherent, age old knowledge, it was named as grandmas’
prescription. A prior informed consent was obtained from the knowledge
providers. |
| Page(s): | 372-374 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0975-1068 (Online); 0972-5938 (Print) |
| Source: | IJTK Vol.10(2) [April 2011]
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