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ReviewMedicines (Basel, Switzerland)2016

Himalayan Aromatic Medicinal Plants: A Review of their Ethnopharmacology, Volatile Phytochemistry, and Biological Activities.

Rakesh K Joshi, Prabodh Satyal, Wiliam N Setzer

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Review in Medicines (Basel, Switzerland), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed.

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  16. Himalayan flora: targeting various molecular pathways in lung cancer.Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England) · 2023
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  17. Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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  18. Underutilized PlantRussian agricultural sciences · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Rakesh K JoshiDepartment of Education, Government of Uttrakhand, Nainital 263001, India. raakeshjoshi@rediffmail.com.
Prabodh SatyalDepartment of Chemistry, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL 35899, USA. prabodhsatyal@gmail.com.
Wiliam N SetzerDepartment of Chemistry, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL 35899, USA. wsetzer@chemistry.uah.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aromatic plants have played key roles in the lives of tribal peoples living in the Himalaya by providing products for both food and medicine. This review presents a summary of aromatic medicinal plants from the Indian Himalaya, Nepal, and Bhutan, focusing on plant species for which volatile compositions have been described. The review summarizes 116 aromatic plant species distributed over 26 families.

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Bhutanessential oilsHimachal PradeshJammu and KashmirNepalSikkimUttarakhand

Identifiers

PMID28930116
PMCPMC5456235

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