Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5454484 | Journal of Radiation Research and Applied Sciences | 2017 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
Medicinal plants are still widely used for the treatment of different ailments in the area of Swabi, therefore survey of medicinal flora should be carried out to explore and bring up-to-date the catalogue of existing natural plant resources of the area especially in agricultural country like Pakistan. Small scale government processing units of agroforestry should be implemented to reduce the overuse and motivate the cultivation of valuable medicinal plants. Majority of the people use various formulations of medicinal plants for different ailments treatment. The phytochemicals greatly varied in medicinal plants and cause a marvelous effect on human illnesses. The objective of the present study was to document the information of folk medicines, its identification, collection of samples, study of its chemical constituents and uses by the local people of District Swabi, Pakistan.
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Authors
Muhammad Khalid, Muhammad Bilal, Danial Hassani, Shah Zaman, Danfeng Huang,