An ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants in Mana Angetu District, southeastern Ethiopia

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Volumn 4, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Lulekal, Ermias ^a   Kelbessa, Ensermu ^b   Bekele, Tamrat ^b   Yineger, Haile ^c  

^a DEBRE BERHAN UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c JIMMA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACACIA; ACACIA TORTILIS; CUSPIDATA; OLEA EUROPAEA;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ETHIOPIA; ETHNOBOTANY; GEOGRAPHY; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; MEDICINAL PLANT; METHODOLOGY; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; VOLCANO;

ETHIOPIA; ETHNOBOTANY; GEOGRAPHY; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

EID: 44349165235     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4269-4-10     Document Type: Article

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