Ethnobotanical studies on some medicinal plants of Booni valley, district Chitral, Pakistan
2006
Ahmad, S. (Government Post Graduate Jahanzeb Coll., Swat (Pakistan). Dept. of Botany) | Ali, A. (Government Post Graduate Jahanzeb Coll., Swat (Pakistan). Dept. of Botany) | Beg, H. (Government Post Graduate Jahanzeb Coll., Swat (Pakistan). Dept. of Botany) | Dasti, A.A. (Bahauddin Zakariya Univ., Multan (Pakistan). Dept. of Pure and Applied Biology) | Shinwari, Z.K. (Kohat Univ. of Science and Technology, Kohat (Pakistan))
Ethnobotanical studies revealed that 75 species from 43 families are being used by the local people of Booni Valley, Chitral, Pakistan. These medicinal plants are used as crude drugs for treating various diseases. Local names of the plants and the diseases treated were recorded. Out of 75 recorded species, 70 are dicots belonging to 40 families, 2 from monocots, 2 species from gymnosperms and 1 from fungi. Local names of the collected medicinal plants used for the treatment of various illnesses were recorded.
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