Ethnobotanical survey of plants used to treat diseases of the reproductive system and preliminary phytochemical screening of some species of malvaceae in Ndop Central Sub-division, Cameroon

Journal of Medicinal Plants Research

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 301-314

  Focho, D A ^a   Nkeng, E A P ^a   Lucha, C F ^a   Ndam, W T ^a   Afegenui, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DSCHANG   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

Chemosystematics; Ethnobotany; Malvaceae; Medicinal plants; Ndop; Reproductive system

Indexed keywords

ACANTHUS MONTANUS EXTRACT; AFRAMOMUM DANIELLI EXTRACT; AFRAMOMUM MELEGUETA EXTRACT; AGERATUM CONYZOIDES EXTRACT; ALCHORNEA CORDIFOLIA EXTRACT; ALCHORNEA LAXIFLORA EXTRACT; ALKALOID DERIVATIVE; ALOE BARBADENSIS EXTRACT; ALOE BUETTNERI EXTRACT; AMBROSIA MARITIMA EXTRACT; BASELLA ALBA EXTRACT; BIDENS PILOSA EXTRACT; BRYOPHYLLUM PINATUM EXTRACT; CAPSICUM FRUTESCENS EXTRACT; CARICA PAPAYA EXTRACT; CENTELLA ASIATICA EXTRACT; CHROMOLAENA ODORATA EXTRACT; CISSUS QUADRANGULARIS EXTRACT; CITRUS AURANTIFOLIA EXTRACT; CITRUS SINENSIS EXTRACT; CLERODENDRUM SCANDENS EXTRACT; COCOS NUCIFERA EXTRACT; COLA NITIDA EXTRACT; COLOCASIA ESCULENTA EXTRACT; COMMELINA BENGHALENSIS EXTRACT; COSTUS AFER EXTRACT; CRASSOCEPHALUM BIAFRAE EXTRACT; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ABELMOSCHUS CAILEI; ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; CAMEROON; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMOTAXONOMY; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG SCREENING; DYSMENORRHEA; ETHNOBOTANY; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GENITAL CANDIDIASIS; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; GONORRHEA; HIBISCUS ASPER; HIBISCUS ROSA SINENSIS; HIBISCUS SABDARIFFA; HIBISCUS SCHIZOPETALOUS; HUMAN; IMMINENT ABORTION; IMPOTENCE; INFERTILITY; LABOR COMPLICATION; LACTATION DISORDER; MALE INFERTILITY; MALVAVISCUS ARBOREOUS; MASTALGIA; MASTITIS; MEDICINAL PLANT; MENORRHAGIA; NONHUMAN; OLIGOSPERMIA; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PLANT IDENTIFICATION; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; POSTPARTUM PAIN; SIDA ACUTA; SIDA RHOMBIFOLIA; SYPHILIS; URETHRITIS; VAGINA CANDIDIASIS;

MALVACEAE;

EID: 73449142192     PISSN: 19960875     EISSN: 19960875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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