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Year: 2001 | Volume: 1 | Issue: 3 | Page No.: 125-128
DOI: 10.3923/jms.2001.125.128
Traditional Medicinal Plants of K. Maras (Turkey)
Sengul Karaman and Yusuf Ziya Kocabas

Abstract: This paper presents a list of some medicinal and aromatic plants in the K.Maras province of Turkey. During the ethnobotanical survey of 88 plants belonging to 47 families were obtained in the period of 1999. It has been found that these plants are mostly used for antiseptic, diuretic, stomach and wound.

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Sengul Karaman and Yusuf Ziya Kocabas, 2001. Traditional Medicinal Plants of K. Maras (Turkey). Journal of Medical Sciences, 1: 125-128.

Keywords: Folk medicine, medicinial plants, K. maras and Turkey

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