An ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used by local people in the lowlands of Konta Special Woreda, southern nations, nationalities and peoples regional state, Ethiopia

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Volumn 5, Issue , 2009, Pages 26-

  Bekalo, Tesfaye H ^a   Woodmatas, Sebsebe D ^b   Woldemariam, Zemede A ^b  

^a Louis Dreyfus Commodities Coffee Division   (Ethiopia)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYMBARIA; ERYTHRINA (ANGIOSPERM); ERYTHRINA ABYSSINICA; FABACEAE; HYPARRHENIA; LAMIACEAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

AFRICAN MEDICINE; ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ETHIOPIA; ETHNOBOTANY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LEGUME; MEDICINAL PLANT; PHYTOTHERAPY;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ETHIOPIA; ETHNOBOTANY; FABACEAE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LAMIACEAE; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

EID: 70350757696     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4269-5-26     Document Type: Article

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