Ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used by people in Zegie Peninsula, Northwestern Ethiopia

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Teklehaymanot, Tilahun ^a   Giday, Mirutse ^a  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOKANTHERA; CALPURNIA AUREA; CARISSA; CLAUSENA ANISATA; CYPHOSTEMMA; DORSTENIA; FICUS THONNINGII; PLUMBAGO;

PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT;

ADULT; AFRICAN MEDICINE; AGED; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CATTLE; ETHIOPIA; ETHNOBOTANY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYTOTHERAPY; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CATTLE; ETHIOPIA; ETHNOBOTANY; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT PREPARATIONS;

EID: 34250811364     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4269-3-12     Document Type: Article

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