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. 1991 Jan-Mar;10(3):207–210.

HERBAL REMEDIES PRESCRIBED BY THE STREET HERBAL VENDORS (TRIBAL MEDICINEMAN) IN THE TREATMENT OF SOME COMMON HUMAN ECOLOGICAL DISORDERS (GYNAECOLOGICAL DISORDERS IN WOMEN)

Rajiv K Sinha 1
PMCID: PMC3331279  PMID: 22556535

Abstract

The Herbal Vendors are the mobile tribal medicineman seen selling crude medicinal plants and their products on the busy streets of many Indian cities. They give herbal treatment for many human ailments and diseases especially the more difficult and chronic ones. They claim to have herbal remedies for some gynaecological disorders in women such as Menorrhagia, leucorrhoea and also to restore fertility among women who fall to conceive. Lodh pathani (Symblocus racemosa), Sema Musli (Salmalia malabaricum) and Jal Jamni (Cocculus villosus) are some of the herbs used as the drug of choice.

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