Ocular toxicity of Afromomum melegueta (alligator pepper) on healthy Igbos of Nigeria

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 203-206

  Igwe, S A ^a   Emeruwa, I C ^a   Modie, J A ^b  

^a Dept of Pharmacol and Therapeutics   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Acuity; Convergence; Emetropes; Presbyopes; Vision

Indexed keywords

AFROMOMUM MELEGUETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCOMMODATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; EYE TOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LACRIMATION; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; NIGERIA; NORMAL HUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PLANT SEED; PRESBYOPIA; PUPIL; SPICE; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; HUMANS; MALE; NIGERIA; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; VISION; ZINGIBERALES;

EID: 0032769791     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-8741(98)00188-3     Document Type: Article

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