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Indigenous herbal coolants for combating heat stress in the hot Indian Arid Zone
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Indigenous herbal coolants for combating heat stress in the hot Indian Arid Zone
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| Creator |
Kumar, Suresh
Parveen, Farzana Goyal, Sangeeta Chauhan, Aruna |
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| Subject |
Indigenous knowledge
Herbal coolants Heat stress Indian arid zone |
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| Description |
679-682
In view of continuous hot weather in eight months a year in arid western Rajasthan, desert dwellers have developed strategies to cope excessive heat. These include use of plants as herbal coolant for human body. An appraisal of such herbal coolants in Western Rajasthan revealed use of 30 species of angiosperm belonging to 30 genera and 24 families. In the paper, common & botanical names and uses of 30 taxa as herbal coolant has been described. |
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| Date |
2008-11-11T07:29:45Z
2008-11-11T07:29:45Z 2008-10 |
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Article
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| Identifier |
0972-5938
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2405 |
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| Language |
en_US
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| Relation |
Int. Cl. ⁸ : A61K36/00, A61P17/10
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| Publisher |
CSIR
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| Source |
IJTK Vol.7(4) [October 2008]
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