Contribution to the ethnobotanical, phytochemical and pharmacological studies of traditionally used medicinal plants in the treatment of dysentery and diarrhoea in Lomela area, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 411-423

  Longanga Otshudi, A ^a   Vercruysse, A ^a   Foriers, A ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Antidiarrhoeal plants; Antidysenteric plants; Democratic Republic of Congo; Ethnopharmacology; Folk medicine; Lomela area

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; FLAVONOID; QUASSINOID DERIVATIVE; SAPONIN; STEROL; SUGAR; TANNIN; TRITERPENE;

ARTICLE; BOTANY; CONGO; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; DYSENTERY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PLANT; PROTOZOON;

ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA;

EID: 0033869278     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-8741(00)00167-7     Document Type: Article

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