Introduction: therapeutic agents from ethnomedicine

Advances in Phytomedicine

Volumn 1, Issue C, 2002, Pages 1-22

  Iwu, Maurice M ^a  

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Author keywords

drug discovery; ethnomedicine; healing remedies; phytomedicines

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957086910     PISSN: 1572557X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1572-557X(02)80009-5     Document Type: Editorial

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