A study on food-medicine continuum among the non-institutionally trained siddha practitioners of Tiruvallur district, Tamil Nadu, India

A study on food-medicine continuum among the non-institutionally trained siddha practitioners of Tiruvallur district, Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract Background Medicinal properties of the food species are one of the poorly documented and important areas of ethnopharmacology. The present survey quantitatively documented the medicinal foods prescribed by the non-institutionally trained siddha practitioners of Tiruvallur district of Tamil...

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Main Authors: S. Esakkimuthu, S. Sylvester Darvin, S. Mutheeswaran, M. Gabriel Paulraj, P. Pandikumar, S. Ignacimuthu, N. A. Al-Dhabi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-06-01
Series:Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Subjects:
Medicinal foods
Functional foods
Traditional brand identity
Indian traditional medicine
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13002-018-0240-9

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