Ethnomedicines used in Trinidad and Tobago for reproductive problems

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Lans, Cheryl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABELMOSCHUS; ABELMOSCHUS MOSCHATUS; ACHYRANTHES; ACHYRANTHES ASPERA ASPERA; AGERATUM CONYZOIDES; AMBROSIA; ARISTOLOCHIA; ARISTOLOCHIA TRILOBATA; ARTEMISIA ABSINTHIUM; BROWNEA; CAPRARIA BIFLORA; CATHARANTHUS ROSEUS; CHAMAESYCE HIRTA; COLA NITIDA; COLEUS; COLEUS AROMATICUS; CORDIA; CORDIA CURASSAVICA; CUCURBITA MAXIMA; CUCURBITA PEPO; ELEUTHERINE BULBOSA; ENTADA POLYSTACHYA; ERYNGIUM; ERYNGIUM FOETIDUM; EUPATORIUM; GOMPHRENA GLOBOSA; HEBECLINIUM MACROPHYLLUM; HIBISCUS; HIBISCUS ROSA-SINENSIS; JUSTICIA PECTORALIS; JUSTICIA SECUNDA; LAPORTEA AESTUANS; LEONOTIS NEPETIFOLIA; MIMOSA; MIMOSA PUDICA; PARINARI; PARTHENIUM HYSTEROPHORUS; PILEA MICROPHYLLA; RICHERIA GRANDIS; RUTA GRAVEOLENS; RUTACEAE; SCOPARIA; SCOPARIA DULCIS; URENA SINUATA; VETIVERIA; VETIVERIA ZIZANIOIDES; WEDELIA; WEDELIA TRILOBATA;

PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT;

ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MIDWIFE; PHYTOTHERAPY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MALE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MIDWIFERY; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT PREPARATIONS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

EID: 34250871576     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4269-3-13     Document Type: Article

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