Ethnobotanical study of knowledge and medicinal plants use by the people in Dek Island in Ethiopia

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 69-78

  Teklehaymanot, Tilahun ^a  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Age; Dek Island; Ethiopia; Ethnobotany; Medicinal plants; Sex

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT;

ABUTILON MAURITIANUM; ACOKANTHERA SCHIMPERI; ADULT; AERVA JAVANICA; AGE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTHRAX; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; ASPARAGUS AFRICANUS; BLEEDING; BRASSICA CARINATA; BRUSEA ANTIDYSENTERICA; CALPURNIA AUREA; CALPURNIA UREA; CAPPARIS TOMENTOSA; CAPSICUM FRUTESCENS; CARDIOSPERMUM HALICACABUM; CARISSA SPINARUM; CLAUSENA ANISATA; CLERODENDRUM MYRICOIDES; COMMELINA BENGALENSIS; CREPIS RUEPPELLII; CRINUM ABYSSINICUM; CROTON MACROSTACHYUS; CUCUMIS FICIFOLIUS; CULTURAL FACTOR; CYNOGLOSSUM COERULEUM; DODONAEA ANGUSTIFOLIA; DORSTENIA BARNIMIANA; DRUG USE; DYSENTERY; ETHIOPIA; ETHNOBOTANY; EUPHORBIA ABYSSINICUM; FEMALE; FERRULA COMMUNIS; FEVER; GENDER; GINGER; GLADIOLUS CANDIDUS; GLINUS LOTOIDES; GLORIOSA SUPERBA; GONORRHEA; GOSSYPIUM HERBACEUM; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMORRHOID; HEPATITIS; HOSLUNDIA OPPOSITA; HUMAN; IMPOTENCE; INJURY; JAUNDICE; JUSTICIA SCHIMPERIANA; KALANCHOE PETITANA; KNOWLEDGE; LAGGERA CRISPATA; LEISHMANIASIS; LEPIDIUM SATIVUM; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MENINGITIS; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; MOMORDICA FOETIDA; MYCOSIS; NEOPLASM; OCIMUM LAMIIFOLIUM; OLIVE TREE; PHYTOLACCA DODECANDRA; PLUMBAGO ZEYLANICUM; PODOCARPUS ALCATUS; RABIES; RICINUS COMMUNIS; RUMEX NEPALENSIS; SAUROMATUM VENOSUM; SCADOXUS MULTIFLORUS; SESAMUM ORIENTALE; SIDA SCHIMPERIANA; SNAKEBITE; SOLANAUM INCANUM; SOLANUM INCANUM; SOLANUM MARGINATUM; STOMACH PAIN; SWELLING; THORAX PAIN; TONSILLITIS; TRIUMFETTA HETEROCARPA; VERBASCUM SINAITICUM; VERBENA OFFICINALIS; VERNONIA AMYGDALINA; VERNONIA FILIGERA; VERRUCA VULGARIS; WOUND; XIMENIA AMERICANA; ZEHNERIA SCABRA; ZIZIPHUS ABYSSINICUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DATA COLLECTION; ETHIOPIA; ETHNOBOTANY; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349135276     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2009.04.005     Document Type: Article

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