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Ethnobotany of medicinal plants used by Assamese people for various skin ailments and cosmetics.
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The medicinal plants used by the people of Assam for curing different skin ailments and for cosmetics ranges from the enhancement of skin colour, hair care, removal of ugly spots, colouring of nails, palms, and teeth, but many of the plant preparations used for enhancing beauty were also applied for therapeutic use.About:
This article is published in Journal of Ethnopharmacology.The article was published on 2006-06-30. It has received 236 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Medicinal plants.read more
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Purposive Sampling as a Tool for Informant Selection
TL;DR: The purposive sampling technique is a type of non-probability sampling that is most effective when one needs to study a certain cultural domain with knowledgeable experts within.
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Curcumin: The Indian solid gold
TL;DR: Curcumin has been shown to exhibit antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal, and anticancer activities and thus has a potential against various malignant diseases, diabetes, allergies, arthritis, Alzheimer's disease, and other chronic illnesses.
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Medicinal plants used by traditional healers in Kancheepuram District of Tamil Nadu, India
TL;DR: It was showed that many people in the studied parts of Kancheepuram district still continue to depend on medicinal plants at least for the treatment of primary healthcare, and there is a grave danger of traditional knowledge disappearing soon.
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Ethnopharmacological application of medicinal plants to cure skin diseases and in folk cosmetics among the tribal communities of North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan
Arshad Mehmood Abbasi,Mir Ajab Khan,Mushtaq Ahmad,Muhammad Zafar,Sarwat Jahan,Shahzia Sultana +5 more
TL;DR: Most of the reported species are wild and rare; this demands an urgent attention to conserve such vital resources so as to optimize their use in the primary health care system.
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Ethnobotanical study of indigenous knowledge on medicinal plant use by traditional healers in Oshikoto region, Namibia
TL;DR: The traditional healers in Oshikoto possess rich ethno-pharmacological knowledge which allows for identifying many high value medicinal plant species, indicating high potential for economic development through sustainable collection of these medicinal plants.
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Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities
Norman Myers,Russell A. Mittermeier,Cristina G. Mittermeier,Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca,Jennifer Kent +4 more
TL;DR: A ‘silver bullet’ strategy on the part of conservation planners, focusing on ‘biodiversity hotspots’ where exceptional concentrations of endemic species are undergoing exceptional loss of habitat, is proposed.
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Ethnomedical knowledge of plants used by Kunabi Tribe of Karnataka in India.
TL;DR: A total of 45 species of plants used by Kunabi community people are described here based on an ethnomedical field survey and are used to treat a wide range of discomforts like fever, cough, skin diseases, rheumatism, snakebite, jaundice, dysentery, etc.
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Pharmacy and herbal medicine in the US.
Alicia S. Bouldin,Mickey C. Smith,Dewey D. Garner,Sheryl L. Szeinbach,Dennis A. Frate,Edward M. Croom +5 more
TL;DR: Much potential exists for pharmacists to fill a role as information provider to patients who self-medicate with herbal medicines; must their perceptions of the product class be changed first?
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Pattern of dermatological diseases in Gauhati Medical College and Hospital Guwahati.
TL;DR: A study on 42198 new cases who have attended the Dermatology department of Gawahati Medical College and Hospital, Guwahati, Assam was carried out for a period of 3 years, Eczema (23.10%), pyoderma (14.29%), fungal infection(14.24%) and psoriasis (5.77%) were the major skin diseases in this part of this country.