Utilisation of priority traditional medicinal plants and local people's knowledge on their conservation status in arid lands of Kenya (Mwingi District)

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Volumn 6, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Njoroge, Grace N ^a   Kaibui, Isaac M ^a   Njenga, Peter K ^a   Odhiambo, Peter O ^a  

^a JOMO KENYATTA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACALYPHA FRUTICOSA; ALBIZIA; ALOE; ALOE SECUNDIFLORA; AZADIRACHTA INDICA; CROTON MEGALOCARPUS; CURCULIONIDAE; EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIACEAE; LOGANIACEAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; POLYGONACEAE; POPULUS; RICINUS COMMUNIS; RUMEX; SALICACEAE; SALIX; SALVADORA PERSICA; SALVADORACEAE; SCOMBEROMORUS SEMIFASCIATUS; SOLANACEAE; SOLANUM; STRYCHNOS; TERMINALIA; WARBURGIA UGANDENSIS;

AFRICAN MEDICINE; AGRICULTURE; ANGIOSPERM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ETHNOBOTANY; FOOD PRESERVATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; KENYA; MEDICINAL PLANT; PHYTOTHERAPY; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

AGRICULTURE; ANGIOSPERMS; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ETHNOBOTANY; FOOD PRESERVATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; KENYA; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

EID: 77955544182     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4269-6-22     Document Type: Article

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