An ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used by the Nandi people in Kenya

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 370-376

  Jeruto, Pascaline ^a   Lukhoba, Catherine ^c   Ouma, George ^a   Otieno, Dennis ^a   Mutai, Charles ^b  

^a MASENO UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^b KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Ethnobotany; Kenya medicinal plants; Nandi people

Indexed keywords

ACANTHUS PUBESCENS; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BARK; BASELLA ALBA; CASSIA DIDYMOBOTRYA; EHRETIA CYMOSA; ETHNOBOTANY; FOREST; HARVESTING; HUMAN; KENYA; LEPIDAGATHIS SCARIOSA; LOGGING; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; PERIPLOCA LINEARIFOLIA; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STEM; PLANTAGO PALMATE; RHUS NATALENSIS; SOLANECIO MANNII; WARBURGIA UGANDENSIS;

ETHNOBOTANY; HUMANS; KENYA; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

EID: 39149119934     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2007.11.041     Document Type: Article

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