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| Title: | Medicinal plants used in skin disease in Deganga, West Bengal |
| Authors: | Bhattacharjee, A
Chatterjee, Soumyadip |
| Keywords: | Medicinal Plants
Skin disease
Oraon tribe
West Bengal |
| Issue Date: | Apr-2007 |
| Publisher: | CSIR |
| IPC Code: | Int. Cl.⁸: A61K36/00, A61P1/02, A61P17/00, A61P17/02, A61P31/00 |
| Abstract: | Ethnobotanical studies reveal some plant species used in skin disease by Oraon tribe of Chandanpur, Hadipur, Chupri village of Deganga, North twenty- four Paragana, West Bengal. Most of the plants were found to be unknown or less known from usage point of view. Other village people migrated from the erstwhile East Pakistan (Bangladesh) also used the plants in skin disease. The plants are: Aloe vera L, Argemone mexicana L, Atrocarpus gomezianus Trecul sub. Spp. zeylanicus jorett, Butea frondosa Roxb ,Cassialata alata L.,Lawasonia inermis L., Ocimum sanctum L.,Pongamia pinnata (L)Merre, Solanum anguivi Lam. & Strychnos nux-vomica L. |
| Page(s): | 358-359 |
| ISSN: | 0972-5938 |
| Source: | IJTK Vol.06(2) [April 2007]
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