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| Title: | Local health wisdom of rural women using medicinal plants |
| Authors: | Verma, Arti
Singhal, Asha
Singh, Dheeraj |
| Keywords: | Local Health Traditions
Ethnomedicine
Jaisalmer
Rajasthan |
| Issue Date: | Apr-2010 |
| Publisher: | CSIR |
| IPC Code: | Int. Cl.8: A61K36/00, A61P1/02, A61P1/04, A61P1/08, A61P1/10, A61P1/16, A61P11/00 |
| Abstract: | The health traditions in which much of the
practices are local and community specific are known as Local Health Traditions
(LHTs). For cold and cough, the traditional treatments included ukaali made of different ingredients
like dhania, clove, tulsi, black pepper, jaiphal, ginger and misri .Whereas, for diarrhoea, the traditional treatment comprised
of taking curd and isab, and mixture
of harad and jaiphal. Dysentery is
treated by various herbs and ingredient like khejadi, maroda phali and
isab. Skin diseases are treated by
taking bath with neem leaves and malaria
is treated by tulsi leaves and
cloves, chewing young leaves of neem.
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| Page(s): | 289-293 |
| ISSN: | 0975-1068 (Online); 0972-5938 (Print) |
| Source: | IJTK Vol.09(2) [April 2010]
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