Medicinal and ethnoveterinary remedies of hunters in Trinidad

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue , 2001, Pages

  Lans, Cheryl ^a   Harper, Tisha ^b   Georges, Karla ^b   Bridgewater, Elmo ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AFRAMOMUM MELEGUETA EXTRACT; ARISTOLOCHIA RUGOSA EXTRACT; ARISTOLOCHIA TRILOBATA EXTRACT; BAUHINIA CUMANENSIS EXTRACT; BAUHINIA EXCISA EXTRACT; CAPSICUM FRUTESCENS EXTRACT; CECROPIA PELTATA EXTRACT; COLA NITIDA EXTRACT; COSTUS SCABER EXTRACT; CROTON EXTRACT; CROTON GOSSYPIFOLIUS EXTRACT; ECLIPTA PROSTRATA EXTRACT; HERBACEOUS AGENT; JATROPHA CURCAS EXTRACT; JATROPHA GOSSYPIFOLIA EXTRACT; JUSTICIA SECUNDA EXTRACT; LEPIANTHES PELTATA EXTRACT; MOMORDICA CHARANTIA EXTRACT; OTTONIA OVATA EXTRACT; PETIVERIA ALLIACEA EXTRACT; PHYLLANTHUS NIRURI EXTRACT; PHYLLANTHUS URINARIA EXTRACT; PIPER HISPIDUM EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; RENEALMIA ALPINIA EXTRACT; SOLANUM EXTRACT; TOBACCO EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VERNONIA SCORPIOIDES EXTRACT; XIPHIDIUM CAERULEUM EXTRACT;

AFRAMOMUM MELEGUETA; ARISTOLOCHIA; ARISTOLOCHIA RUGOSA; ARISTOLOCHIA TRILOBATA; BAUHINIA; BAUHINIA CUMANENSIS; BAUHINIA EXCISA; BITES AND STINGS; CAPSICUM FRUTESCENS; CECROPIA; COLA; COLA NITIDA; COSTUS; COSTUS SCABER; CROTON; CROTON GOSSYPIFOLIUS; DOG DISEASE; DRUG MECHANISM; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; JATROPHA; JATROPHA CURCAS; JATROPHA GOSSYPIFOLIA; JUSTICIA SECUNDA; LEPIANTHES PELTATA; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; OTTONIA OVATA; PEPPER; PETIVERIA ALLIACEA; PHYLLANTHUS; PHYLLANTHUS NIRURI; PHYLLANTHUS URINARIA; PIPER HISPIDUM; PIPERACEAE; RENEALMIA ALPINIA; REVIEW; SCORPION; SNAKEBITE; SOLANUM; TOBACCO; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO; VERNONIA; VERNONIA SCORPIOIDES; VETERINARY MEDICINE; XIPHIDIUM CAERULEUM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DOG; INFESTATION; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; MONKEY DISEASE; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT; SPIDER BITE; YELLOW FEVER;

ANIMALS; ARACHNIDISM; BITES AND STINGS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; HUMANS; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MITE INFESTATIONS; MONKEY DISEASES; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; SCORPIONS; SNAKE BITES; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YELLOW FEVER;

EID: 0642373095     PISSN: 14726882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-1-10     Document Type: Review

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