An ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used by the Zay people in Ethiopia

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 43-52

  Giday, Mirutse ^a   Asfaw, Zemede ^a   Elmqvist, Thomas ^b   Woldu, Zerihun ^a  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b Swedish Biodiversity Centre   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ethiopia; Ethnobotany; Informants; Medicinal plants; Zay people

Indexed keywords

ACHYRANTHES ASPERA EXTRACT; ACOKANTHERA SCHIMPERI EXTRACT; ASPARAGUS AFRICANUS EXTRACT; CALOTROPIS PROCERA EXTRACT; CARISSA EDULIS EXTRACT; CORDIA MONOICA EXTRACT; CROTON MACROSTACHYUS EXTRACT; CUCUMIS FICIFOLIUS EXTRACT; CYNOGLOSSUM LANCEOLATUM EXTRACT; DYSCHORISTE RADICANS EXTRACT; ELEUSINE CORACANA EXTRACT; EUCLEA SCHIMPERI EXTRACT; EUPHORBIA CROTONOIDES EXTRACT; GARLIC EXTRACT; HAGENIA ABYSSINICA EXTRACT; HELIOTROPIUM AEGYPTIACUM EXTRACT; HELIOTROPIUM PTEROCARPUM EXTRACT; INDIGOFERA SPICATA EXTRACT; KEDROSTIS FOETIDISSIMA EXTRACT; LINUM USITATISSIMUM EXTRACT; OCIMUM URTICIFOLIUM EXTRACT; PAVETTA GARDENIFOLIA EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; RUTA CHALEPENSIS EXTRACT; SENNA OCCIDENTALIS EXTRACT; SOLANUM INCANUM EXTRACT; SORGHUM BICOLOR EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VERNONIA AMYGDALINA EXTRACT; WITHANIA SOMNIFERA EXTRACT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTHRAX; ARTICLE; BOTANY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DANDRUFF; DEFORESTATION; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFECT; ETHIOPIA; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEMORRHOID; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INTOXICATION; LIVESTOCK; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; RETAINED PLACENTA; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN INJURY; SNAKEBITE; STOMACH DISEASE; TAPEWORM INFECTION; THORAX PAIN; TONSILLITIS; TOOTH PAIN; TYPHOID FEVER; VOMITING;

EID: 0037358383     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-8741(02)00359-8     Document Type: Article

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