Exploration and Local Utilization of Medicinal Vegetation Naturally Grown in the Deusai Plateau of Gilgit, Pakistan

Overview

Journal Saudi J Biol Sci

Specialty Biology

Date 2018 Feb 24

PMID 29472786

Citations 5

Authors

Kifayat Ullah Khan

Maqarab Shah

Habib Ahmad

Shujaul Mulk Khan

Inayat Ur Rahman

Zafar Iqbal

Raees Khan

Elsayed Fathi Abd Allah

Abdulaziz Abdullah Alqarawi

Abeer Hashem

Abdullah Aldubise

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Abstract

In the study area, the traditional knowledge regarding the uses of local wild medicinal plants for the health care of human and domestic animals is totally in hold of old people. The young ones are unaware about such an indispensable practices. The objective of the current study was to transfer this sort of precious knowledge from old members of the community to young generations in documented form.

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