Medicinal plants used in the management of chronic joint pains in Machakos and Makueni counties, Kenya

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 945-955

  Wambugu, Stanley N ^a   Mathiu, Peter M ^a   Gakuya, Daniel W ^a   Kanui, Titus I ^a   Kabasa, John D ^b   Kiama, Stephen G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^b MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Akamba; Chronic joint pains; Ethnobotanical survey; Machakos Kenya; Medicinal plants; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT;

ACACIA MEARNSII; ACACIA MELLIFERA; ACACIA NILOTICA; ACACIA SEYAL; AJUGA REMOTA; ALOE SECUNDIFLORA; AMARANTHUS ALBUS; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; ASTERACEAE; BALANITES GLABER; BALANITES GLABRA; BOSCIA SALICIFOLIA; CARISSA SPINARUM; CASSIA SPECTABILIS; CHRONIC PAIN; CLERODENDRUM MYRICOIDES; ETHNOBOTANY; FAGAROPSIS HILDEBRA; FAGAROPSIS HILDEBRANDTII; FICUS SYCOMORUS; GREWIA FALLAX; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; KENYA; LACTUCA CAPENSIS; LANTANA CAMARA; LAUNAEA CORNUTA; LEGUME; LIPPIA KITUIENSIS; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; OCIMUM SUAVE; OLIVE TREE; PAPPEA CAPENSIS; PAVETTA CRASSIPES; PEARL MILLET; PIGEONPEA; PILIOSTIGMA THONNINGII; PLANT MORPHOLOGY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RICINUS COMMUNIS; RUMEX USAMBARENSIS; RUTACEAE; SALVADORA PERSICA; SCHKUHRIA PINNATA; SCUTIA MYRTINA; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOLANUM INCANUM; STRYCHNOS HENNINGSII; TERMINALIA BROWNII; TITHONIA DIVERSIFOLIA; VERBENACEAE; WITHANIA SOMNIFERA; ZANTHOXYLUM CHALYBEUM;

ARTHRALGIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; ETHNOBOTANY; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; HUMANS; KENYA; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; PLANT PREPARATIONS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; QUESTIONNAIRES;

ACACIA MELLIFERA; AMARANTHUS ALBUS; BALANITES GLABRA; CARISSA; CORNUTA; FAGAROPSIS; FALLAX; GREWIA; LACTUCA; LAUNAEA; LIPPIA; PAPPEA CAPENSIS; PAVETTA CRASSIPES; PENNISETUM GLAUCUM; STRYCHNOS; ZANTHOXYLUM CHALYBEUM;

EID: 80052034369     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: 18727573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2011.06.038     Document Type: Article

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