Aromatic Medicinal Plants from Tajikistan (Central Asia)

Tajikistan is a small country located in Central Asia. The mostly mountainous terrain with a continental, subtropical, and semiarid climate, is characterized by diverse flora. Many people in Tajikistan rely on medicinal plants as their traditional form of medicine to prevent and cure health disorders. Aromatic medicinal plants, in particular, have played an important role for the local people. In this review, we present a summary of the uses of 18 aromatic medicinal plants from Tajikistan and their compositions of secondary metabolites.

• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Medicines

• Publication date

  2015-02-17

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3390/medicines2010028PMID 28933380PMCID 5532974
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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