Medicinal plants used by inhabitants of the Shigar Valley, Baltistan region of Karakorum range-Pakistan

Abstract Background The inhabitants of mountainous terrains depend on folk therapies to treat various ailments; however lack of plant based research and geographical constraints set the traditional knowledge in jeopardy. Present study is the first documentation on traditional uses of plant species b...

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Main Authors: Zaheer Abbas, Shujaul Mulk Khan, Jan Alam, Sher Wali Khan, Arshad Mehmood Abbasi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-09-01
Series:Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13002-017-0172-9