Documentation on medicinal plants sold in markets in Abeokuta, Nigeria

Tropical Journal of Pharmaceutical Research

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 110-118

  Idu, MacDonald ^a   Erhabor, Joseph O ^a   Efijuemue, Harriet M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BENIN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Documentation; Ethnomedicine; Medicinal plants cultivation; Traditional medicine

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; APHRODISIAC AGENT; HERBACEOUS AGENT; LAXATIVE;

ACASIA ATAXACANTHA; ADENOPUS BREVIFLORUS; AFRAMOMUM MELEGUETA; AGELAEA OBLIQUA; ALSTONIA BOONEI; ANCHOMANES DIFFORMIS; ANEMIA; ANGYLOCALYX OLIGOPHYLLUS; ARGEMONE MEXICANA; ARISTOLOCHIA REPENS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BAMBUSA VULGARIS; BARK; BOSQUEIA ANGOLENSIS; BRIDELIA ATROVIRIDIS; CACAO; CALLIANDRA HAEMATOCEPHALA; CASHEW NUT; CASSIA SIEBERIANA; CITRULLUS COLOCYNTHUS; CNESTIS FERRUGINEA; COLA GIGANTEA; CONVULSION; COUGHING; CRINUM JAGUS; CROTON PEDULIFLORUS; CURCULIGO PILOSA; CYMBOPOGON CITRATUS; CYNOMETRA MANII; DALZ; DANIELLA OLIVERI; DETARIUM MICROCARPUM; DIOCLEA SECANDENS; DIOSCOREA CAYENENSIS; DOCUMENTATION; DRUG DOSAGE FORM; DRUG MARKETING; DYSENTERY; ECZEMA; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ERYTHROPHLEUM SUAVEOLENS; ETHNOBOTANY; EUPHORBIA LATERIFLORA; EYE PAIN; FEMALE; FICUS CAPENSIS; FRACTURE; FRUIT; GARCINIA KOLA; GARLIC; GONORRHEA; HELIOTROPIUM INDICUM; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTHERMIA; INDIGOFERA PILOSA; INSOMNIA; INTERVIEW; JAUNDICE; KHAYA IVORENSIS; LANNEA EGREGIA; LANNEA WELWITSCHII; LAWSONIA INERMIS; LECANIODISCUS CUPANIOIDES; LONCHOCARPUS CYANESCENS; LOPHIRA ALATA; MALARIA; MALE; MEASLES; MEDICINAL PLANT; MENORRHAGIA; MONDIA WHITEI; MOUTH INFECTION; MYCOSIS; NAUCLEA LATIFOLIA; NESOGORDONIA PAPAVERIFERA; NIGERIA; PAIN; PIGEONPEA; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; RAUWOLFIA VOMITORIA; SCHREBERA ARBOREA; SECURINEGA VIROSA; SHALLOT; SKIN IRRITATION; SPHENOCENTRUM JOLLYANUM; STOMACH PAIN; STROKE; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; SWELLING; SYZYGIUM GUINEENSE; TERMINALIA AVICENNIOIDES; TERMINALIA SUPERVA; TETRAPLEURA TETRAPTERA; TRECULIA AFRICANA; TUBERCULOSIS; TYPHOID FEVER; UVARIA AFZELII; UVARIA CHAMAE; VOMITING; WOUND; XYLOPIA AETHIOPICA; YELLOW FEVER; ZINGIBER OFFICALE;

EID: 77952310108     PISSN: 15965996     EISSN: 15969827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4314/tjpr.v9i2.53696     Document Type: Article

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