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ArticleHeliyon2023

Plants used against liver disorders by autochthonous practitioners of Multan, Pakistan.

Samreen Akhtar, Muhammad Qasim Hayat, Salma Ghaffar, Munaza Naseem, Naila Abbas, Shazia Jabeen

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Article in Heliyon, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Evaluating the Hepatoprotective Effect ofFood science & nutrition · 2026
    Article
  2. Evaluation of the Hepatoprotective Properties of Traditional Formulations Based onAdvances in pharmacological and pharmaceutical sciences · 2024
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Samreen AkhtarDepartment of Botany, The Women University Multan, Pakistan.
Muhammad Qasim HayatMedicinal Plants Research Laboratory (MPRL), Atta-Ur-Rahman School of Applied Biosciences (ASAB), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), H-12 Islamabad, Pakistan.
Salma GhaffarDepartment of Botany, The Women University Multan, Pakistan.
Munaza NaseemDepartment of Environmental Sciences, The Women University Multan, Pakistan.
Naila AbbasDepartment of Environmental Sciences, The Women University Multan, Pakistan.
Shazia JabeenDepartment of Environmental Sciences, The Women University Multan, Pakistan.
The Women University Multan · PKNational University of Sciences and Technology · PK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The research work was commenced with an aim to document plant based drug recipes used by autochthonous practitioners against liver diseases in Multan region. The data was collected by interviews and semi-structured questionnaire from 43 traditional herbal practitioners. Recorded data was evaluated using the use value, relative frequency of citation (RFC), family importance value (FIV) and family use value (FUV). Total of 69 plant species belonging to 38 families were reported to be utilized to treat various liver disorders. The most important species regarding their use value were 3.0 for

Indexed as

Herbal practitionersLiver disordersMedicinal plantsMultan region

Identifiers

PMID36938465
PMCPMC10015209
OpenAlexW4321769129

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