Knowledge and use of medicinal plants by people around Debre Libanos monastery in Ethiopia

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 271-283

  Teklehaymanot, Tilahun ^a   Giday, Mirutse ^a   Medhin, Girmay ^a   Mekonnen, Yalemtsehay ^a  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Ethiopia; Ethnobotany; Medicinal plants; Monastery; Traditional knowledge

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT;

ACHYRANTHES ASPERA; ACOKANTHERA SCHIMPERI; ALOE PULCHERIMA; ARTICLE; BECIUM GRANDIFLORUM; BRUCEA ANTIDYSENTERICA; CALPURNIA AUREA; CANCER; CAPPARIS TOMENTOSA; CARISSA SPINARUM; CATHA EDULIS; CHENOPODIUM ANTHELMINTICUM; CLEMATIS HIRSUTA; CLERODENDRUM MYRICOIDES; CORDIA AFRICANA; CROTON MARCOSTACHYUS; CUCUMIS DISPSACEUS; CUCUMIS FICIFOLIUS; CYNOGLOSSUM LANCEOLATUM; CYPHOSTEMMA CYPHOPETALUM; CYPHOSTEMMA JUNCEUM; DATURA STRAMONIUM; DIPLOLOPHUIUM AFRICANUM; DODONAEA ANGUSTIFOLIA; DORSTENIA BARNIMIANA; ECHINOPS KEBERICHO; ELEUSINE FLOCCIFOLIA; ENTEROPATHY; EPILOBIUM HIRUSTUM; ETHIOPIA; EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS; EUPHORBIA ABYSSINICA; EUPHORBIA TIRUCALLI; FEMALE; FERRULA COMMUNIS; FEVER; GARLIC; GINGER; GLINUS LOTOIDES; GLORIOSA SUPERBA; GUIZOTIA ABYSSINICA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTESTINE PARASITE; JASMINUM ABYSSINICUM; KALANCHOE PETITIANA; KNOWLEDGE; LENTIL; LEONOTIS VELUTINA; LEPIDIUM SATIVUM; LIME (FRUIT); MAESA LANCEOLATA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALVA VERTICILLATA; MAYTENUS SERRATA; MEDICINAL PLANT; MYRICA SALICIFOLIA; OCIMUM LAMIIFOLIUM; OLIVE TREE; OTOSTEGIA INTEGRIFILIA; PENTAS SCHIMPERIANA; PHYTOLACCA DODECANDRA; PLECTRANTHUS; PREMNA SCHIMPERI; QUESTIONNAIRE; RABIES; RANUNCULUS MULTIFIDUS; RELIGIOUS GROUP; RHAMNUS PRINOIDES; RUBIA CORDIFOLIA; RUMEX ABYSSINICA; RUMEX NERVOSUS; RUMEX STETUDELLI; RUTA CHALEPENSIS; SECURIDACA LONGIPEDUNCULATA; SENECIO MYRIOCEPHALUS; SIDA SCHIMPERIANA; SILEN MACROSOLEN; SOLANUM INDICUM; SOLANUM MARGINATUM; SPILANTHES ULIGINOSA; SQUASH; SWELLING; THEA SINENSIS; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; VERBASCUM SINAITICUM; VERBENA OFFICINALIS; VERNONIA AMYGDALINA; WITHANIA SOMENIFERA; ZEHNERIA SCABRA;

ANIMALS; CLERGY; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; ETHIOPIA; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; RABIES; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 34047093985     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2006.11.019     Document Type: Article

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