Ethnoveterinary medicines used for ruminants in Trinidad and Tobago

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 149-163

  Lans, Cheryl ^a   Brown, Gabriel ^b  

^a University of the West Indies ^*  (Trinidad and Tobago)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

Ethnoveterinary medicine; Folk medicine; Participatory research; Trinidad and Tobago

Indexed keywords

AZADIRACHTA INDICA; BOVIDAE; CURCUMA LONGA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; BOVIDS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; FEMALE; GOAT; GOAT DISEASE; INJURY; MEDICINAL PLANT; METHODOLOGY; MILK; OVULATION INDUCTION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYTOTHERAPY; PREGNANCY; RETAINED PLACENTA; SECRETION; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; FEMALE; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; HELMINTHIASIS, ANIMAL; MILK; OVULATION INDUCTION; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLACENTA, RETAINED; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PREGNANCY; RUMINANTS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO; VETERINARY MEDICINE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0032088654     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5877(98)00066-X     Document Type: Article

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