Ethnobotanical study of anthelmintic and other medicinal plants traditionally used in Loitoktok district of Kenya

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 15-21

  Muthee, J K ^a   Gakuya, D W ^a   Mbaria, J M ^a   Kareru, P G ^b   Mulei, C M ^a   Njonge, F K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

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

Author keywords

Anthelmintic; Ethnobotanical study; Kenya; Loitoktok; Medicinal plants

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; HERBACEOUS AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACACIA DREPANOLOBIUM; ACACIA NILOTICA; ACACIA XANTHOPHLOEA; ACOKANTHERA SCHIMPERI; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ALBIXIA ANTHELHINTICA; ALBIZIA ANTHELMINTICA; ALEO SECUNDIFLORA; ALLERGY; ANGIOSPERM; ANTHELMINTIC ACTIVITY; ARTEMESIA AFRA; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; AZADIRACHTA INDICA; BACKACHE; BALANITES GLABRA; BORAGINACEAE; BRUCELLOSIS; CALODENDRUM CAPENSE; CAPARIS TOMENTOSA; CARISSA EDULIS; CISSU QUANDRINGULARIS; CLAUSENA ANISATA; CLERODENDRUM MYRICOIDES; COMBRETUM MOLLE; COMELINA AFRICANA; COMMIPHORA AFRICANA; CONSTIPATION; CORDIA AFRICANA; CORDIA MONOICA; COWPOX; CRORTON DICHOGAMUS; CROTON MEGALOCAPUS; CROTON MEGALOCARPUS; CUSSONIA HOLSTII; DIABETES MELLITUS; DOMBEYA ROTUNDIFOLIA; DOVYALIS ABYSSINICA; DYSENTERY; EAST COAST FEVER; ELAEDENDRON BUCHANANII; ENDOMETRITIS; ERYTHRINA ABYSSINICA; ETHNOBOTANY; EUCLEA DIVINORUM; EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIA CUNEATA; EUPHORIA CANDELABRUM; EUPHORIA CUNEATA; FATIGUE; FAUREA SALIGNA; FEVER; FICUS SYNCOMORUS; FICUS THONNINGI; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; GALIUM APRIMNPOIDES; GONORRHEA; HARISONIA ABYSSINICA; HEARTBURN; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; HYMENODICTYON PARVIFOLIUM; IBAZA MULTIFLORA; IMPOTENCE; INDIGESTION; INDIGOFERA ARRECTA; INFERTILITY; INTERVIEW; KENYA; KIGELIA AFRICANA; LABIATEAE; LEUCAS CALUSTACHYS; LEUCAS PODODISKOS; LIPPIA KITUIENSIS; MALARIA; MAYTENUS SENEGALENSIS; MEASLES; MEDICINAL PLANT; MONDIA WHYTEI; MUSA ACUMINATA; MYRSINACEAE; MYRSINE AFRICANA; NONHUMAN; OLEA AFRICANA; OLEACEAE; OLINIA USAMBARENSIS; ORMOCARPUM KIRKII; OSYRIS LANCEOLATA; OZOROA INSIGNIS; PAPPEA CAPENSIS; PHARYNGITIS; PIGEONPEA; PNEUMONIA; PSIADIA PUNCULATA; PYGEUM; QUESTIONNAIRE; RAPANEA MELANOPHLOES; RAPANEA MELANOPHTHLEOS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RHAMNUS PERINOIDES; RHAMNUS STADDO; RHOICISSUS TRIDENTATA; RHUS NATALENSIS; RICINUS COMMUNIS; RUBIACEAE; RUMEX USAMBARENSIS; RUTACEAE; SALVADORA PERSICA; SERICOCOMPOSIS HILDEBRANDTII; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SKIN DISEASE; SNAKEBITE; SOLANUM TAITANSE; STOMACH DISEASE; STOMACH PAIN; STOMACH ULCER; STRYCHNOS HENNINGSII; SYPHILIS; TECLEA SIMPLICIFOLIA; TERMINALIA BROWNII; TINEA; TOOTH PAIN; TRIMELIA BAKERI; TURRAEA MOMBASSANA; ULCER; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URTICA DIOICA; USENACEAE; USNEA; UTERUS BLEEDING; VANGUERIA TOMENTOSA; WABURGIA UGANDENSIS; XIMENIA AMERICANA; ZANTHOXYLUM USAMBARENSE; ZEHNERIA SCABRA;

ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; ETHNOBOTANY; EUPHORBIACEAE; FABACEAE; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; KENYA; MALE; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; RUTACEAE;

ALBIZIA ANTHELMINTICA; ANIMALIA; BORAGINACEAE; CLAUSENA ANISATA; EUPHORBIACEAE; FABACEAE; LILIACEAE; MYRSINACEAE; MYRSINE AFRICANA; OLEA EUROPAEA SUBSP. CUSPIDATA; OLEACEAE; POLYGONACEAE; RAPANEA; RHAMNACEAE; RUBIACEAE; RUMEX; RUTACEAE; SALVADORA PERSICA; SALVADORACEAE; SOLANACEAE;

EID: 79955470705     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2011.02.005     Document Type: Article

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