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Volume 36, Issue 1-4 1994

Articles

Unreported Ethnomedicinal Uses of Plants as Aphrodisiac from the Folk-Lores of Uttar Pradesh Plains, India

https://doi.org/10.20324/nelumbo/v36/1994/74385

  • K. K. Khanna
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  • V. Mudgal
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  • G. Shukla
    • ,
  • P. K. Srivastava

K. K. Khanna
Botanical Survey of India, Allahabad

V. Mudgal
Botanical Survey of India, Howrah

G. Shukla
Botany Department, University of Allahabad, Allahabad

P. K. Srivastava
Botanical Survey of India, Allahabad

Abstract

The paper deals with unreported medicinal uses of eighteen plant species (belonging to sixteen families) exploited as aphrodisiac among the folk-lores of Uttar Pradesh plains, India. The data are outcome of ethnobotanical survey of more than 300 villages of nine districts viz., Bahraich, Gonda, Hamirpur, Jalaun, Mirzapur, Pratapgarh, Raebareli, Sidharthnagar and Sultanpur. Local name of plant, part of plant used, mode of drug preparation, administration and doses are given under each species.
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