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Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences

Year: 2005 | Volume: 8 | Issue: 12 | Page No.: 1783-1793
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2005.1783.1793
Screeningof Endangered Medicinal Plants Species by Questionnaire Survey in Barind Tract in Bangladesh
N. A. Siddique, M. A. Bari, M. M. Pervin, N. Nahar , L.A. Banu , K.K. Paul , M.H. Kabir , A.K.M.N. Huda , M.U. Mollah and K.M.K.B. Ferdaus

Abstract: This study deals with over two hundred medicinal plants of ethnobotanical importance, used by the village doctors especially village Kavirajs in Barind Tract for medicinal purposes. This study aims at the identification of endangered medicinal plants by questionnaire survey and also preservation and perpetuation of this knowledge of the local plants possessing medicinal properties for the benefit and further fruitful investigation on modern scientific lines.

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N. A. Siddique, M. A. Bari, M. M. Pervin, N. Nahar , L.A. Banu , K.K. Paul , M.H. Kabir , A.K.M.N. Huda , M.U. Mollah and K.M.K.B. Ferdaus , 2005. Screeningof Endangered Medicinal Plants Species by Questionnaire Survey in Barind Tract in Bangladesh. Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences, 8: 1783-1793.

Keywords: Screening, barind tract, medicinal plants and Bangladesh

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