Graphical dataset on important medicinal plants used for curing dental issues in Manoor Valley, Mansehra, Pakistan

Data Brief. 2016 Nov 15:9:1028-1033. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2016.11.025. eCollection 2016 Dec.

Abstract

The graphical dataset in this paper is related to the research article entitled "A novel survey of the ethno medicinal knowledge of dental problems in Manoor Valley (Northern Himalaya), Pakistan" (I.U. Rahman, F. Ijaz, Z. Iqbal, A. Afzal, N. Ali, M. Afzal, M.A. Khan, S. Muhammad, G. Qadir, M. Asif, 2016) [1]. This article describes how the local community of Manoor Valley practices cultural / traditional knowledge for dental problems. For the recorded data of 25 medicinal plants, six quantitative ethnomedicinal statistical approaches / equations were used. Out of these indices, four were used to measure the most imported and cited medicinal plant species while two for the comparative analysis to evaluate the novelty of work.

Keywords: Dental issues; Graphical dataset; Manoor Valley Pakistan; Quantitative ethnobotany.