Aromatic Medicinal Plants from Tajikistan (Central Asia)

Overview

Journal Medicines (Basel)

Specialty Pharmacology

Date 2017 Sep 22

PMID 28933380

Citations 3

Authors

Farukh S Sharopov

Hanjing Zhang

Michael Wink

William N Setzer

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Abstract

Tajikistan is a small country located in Central Asia. The mostly mountainous terrain with a continental, subtropical, and semiarid climate, is characterized by diverse flora. Many people in Tajikistan rely on medicinal plants as their traditional form of medicine to prevent and cure health disorders. Aromatic medicinal plants, in particular, have played an important role for the local people. In this review, we present a summary of the uses of 18 aromatic medicinal plants from Tajikistan and their compositions of secondary metabolites.

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