Medicinal plants: An important asset to health care in a region of Central Laos

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 303-311

  Libman, A ^a   Bouamanivong, S ^b   Southavong, B ^b   Sydara, K ^b   Soejarto, D D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Ministry of Health   (Laos)

Author keywords

Ethnobotany; Laos; Medicinal plants

Indexed keywords

ALBIZIA CORNICULATA EXTRACT; AMOMUM THYRSOIDEUM EXTRACT; ARTABOTRYS PALLENS EXTRACT; BAMBUSA VULGARIS EXTRACT; BEGONIA INTEGRIFOLIA EXTRACT; COMBRETUM PILOSUM EXTRACT; CURCUMA ANGUSTIFOLIA EXTRACT; DALBERGIA BALANSAE EXTRACT; DALBERGIA BARIENSIS EXTRACT; DALBERGIA RIMOSA EXTRACT; DESMODIUM TRIQUETRUM EXTRACT; EUODIA SIMPLICIFOLIA EXTRACT; FICUS HIRTA EXTRACT; GARCINIA LUZONENSIS EXTRACT; GARCINIA OLIGANTHA EXTRACT; GLOCHIDION RUBRUM EXTRACT; HEDYOTIS SCANDENS EXTRACT; HELICTERES HIRSUTA EXTRACT; HERBACEOUS AGENT; HYDROLEA ZEYLANICA EXTRACT; LAGENARIA SICERARIA EXTRACT; LITSEA LONGISTAMINATA EXTRACT; LYGODIUM JAPONICUM EXTRACT; MACLURODENDRON OLIGOPHLEBIA EXTRACT; MANGIFERA CAMPTOSPERMA EXTRACT; MELASTOMA DECEMFIDUM EXTRACT; MICROMELUM HIRSUTUM EXTRACT; MILLETTIA PISCIDIA EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ALBIZIA CORNICULATA; AMOMUM; ANACARDIACEAE; ANGIOSPERM; ANNONACEAE; ARTICLE; ASTERACEAE; BACKACHE; BAMBUSA; BEGONIACEAE; BIGNONIACEAE; CELASTRACEAE; CERATANTHUS STOLONIFER; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COLITIS; COLON CANCER; COLONA AURICULATA; COMBRETUM; CONSTIPATION; COUGHING; CUCUMBER; CURCUMA ANGUSTIFOLIA; DALBERGIA BALANSAE; DENGUE; DESMODIUM TRIQUETRUM; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG UTILIZATION; DYSENTERY; EDEMA; ETHNOBOTANY; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; EUODIA SIMPLICIFOLIA; EUPHORBIA; FATIGUE; FEVER; FICUS HIRTA; FURUNCULOSIS; GALLSTONE; GARCINIA; GASTRITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GLOCHIDION RUBRUM; GONORRHEA; HEADACHE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEDYOTIS; HELICTERES HIRSUTA; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; HYDROLEA ZEYLANICA; HYDROPHYLLACEAE; JAUNDICE; LAGENARIA SICERARIA; LAOS; LEGUME; LITSEA LONGISTAMINATA; LYGODIUM JAPONICUM; MACLURODENDRON OLIGOPHLEBIA; MALARIA; MANGO; MEDICINAL PLANT; MELASTOMA DECEMFIDUM; MELASTOMATACEAE; MENISPERMACEAE; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; MICROMELUM HIRSUTUM; MILLETIA PISCIDIA; MORACEAE; MUSHROOM POISONING; MYRTACEAE; NEONAUCLEA SESSILIFOLIA; NEPHRITIS; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NOTHAPHOEBE CONDENSATA; OROXYLUM INDICUM; OXALIS CORNICULATA; PAIN; PAVONIA RIGIDA; PLANT TAXONOMY; PNEUMONIA; POLIOMYELITIS; POLYALTHIA CONSANGUINEA; PSYCHORTIRA SILVESTRIS; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RUBIACEAE; RUTACEAE; SALACIA CHINENSIS; SCOPARIA DULCIS; SCROPHULARIACEAE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SKIN INFECTION; SORE THROAT; STEPHANIA ROTUNDA; STERCULIACEAE; STOMACH PAIN; SYZIGIUM FORMOSUM; SYZYGIUM TINCTORIUM; TAMARIND; TARENNA ASIATICA; TILIACEAE; TREATMENT INDICATION; URARIA RUFESCENS; UTERUS CANCER; VERNONIA ELLIPTICA; VITEX; VITEX TRIPINNATA; ZINGIBERACEAE;

DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; HUMANS; LAOS; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 33745476884     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2005.11.034     Document Type: Article

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