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Medicinal & Aromatic Plants

Medicinal & Aromatic Plants
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Boudjethia KW

Boudjethia KW

Algeria

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  • Research Article
    Ethnomedicinal Survey of Medicinal Plants Used in the Western Region of Algeria
    Author(s): Hammadi D, Ahmed M, Boudjethia KW, Boukhalfa AI and Djebli NHammadi D, Ahmed M, Boudjethia KW, Boukhalfa AI and Djebli N

    Since ancient times plants have been indispensable sources of both preventive and curative traditional medicine preparations for human as well as animals. In Algeria, plant remedies are still the most important and sometimes the only sources of therapeutics for nearly 50% of human and more than 70% in rural population. Therapeutic uses of the same plant species for humans in west of Algeria have also been compared. The identification of plant species traditionally from the local flora could be also potentially useful for the isolation of natural extracts of phyto-therapeutic interest to increase a result of resistance to the antibiotics. An ethno botanical study of medicinal plants was carried out in the west region of Algeria. It was made in order to establish a catalog of medicinal plants and gather all the information about the therapeutic uses practiced by the local population in .. View More»
    DOI: 10.4172/2167-0412.1000221

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