Ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants in the Blue Nile State, South-eastern Sudan

Journal of Medicinal Plants Research

Volumn 5, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 4287-4297

  Musa, Musa S ^a,b   Abdelrasool, Fathelrhman E ^b   Elsheikh, Elsheikh A ^c   Ahmed, Lubna A M N ^b   Mahmoud, Abdel Latif E ^c   Yagi, Sakina M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^b Forests National Corporation (Blue Nile)   (Sudan)

^c Forest Research Centre (FRC)   (Sudan)

Author keywords

Blue Nile State; Ethnobotanical survey; Medicinal plants; Sudan

Indexed keywords

PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT;

ACACIA NILOTICA; ACACIA OERFOTA; ACACIA POLYACANTHA; ACACIA SENEGAL; ACACIA SEYAL; ACNE; ADANSONIA DIGITATA; ANOGEISSUS LEIOCARPUS; ARISTOLOCHIA BRACTEATA; ARTICLE; AZADIRACHTA INDICA; BALANITES AEGYPTIACA; BAUHINIA RUFESCENS; BLEEDING; BOSCIA SENEGALENSIS; BOSWELLIA PAPYRIFERA; BREAST DISEASE; BREAST TUMOR; CARISSA EDULIS; CASSIA AREREH; CELOSIA TRIGYNA; CHOLERA; CISSUS QUADRANGULARIS; CLEMATIS HIRSUTA; CLITORIA TERNATEA; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; CYNANCHUM ACUTUM; DALBERGIA MELANOXYLON; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIARRHEA; DICHROSTACHYS CINEREA; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG USE; DYSENTERY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; EPILEPSY; ERYTHRINA ABYSSINICA; ETHNOBOTANY; EYE DISEASE; FEVER; FICUS INGENS; FICUS SYCAMORUS; FURUNCULOSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GIARDIASIS; GREWIA VILLOSA; GYROCARPUS JACQUINII; HEADACHE; HYDNORA JOHANNIS; HYPERTENSION; INFECTION; INFESTATION; JATROPHA CURCAS; JAUNDICE; KHAYA SENEGALENSIS; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIGELIA AFRICANA; LANNEA FRUTICOSA; MAERUA ANGOLENSIS; MALARIA; MEASLES; MEDICINAL PLANT; MOMORDICA BALSAMINA; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NEOPLASM; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; OZOROA INSIGNIS; PAIN; PILIOSTIGMA RETICULATUM; PLUMBAGO ZEYLANICA; RASH; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SCLEROCARYA BIRREA; SECURIDACA LONGEPEDUNCULATA; SENNA OBTUSIFOLIA; SENNA OCCIDENTALIS; SENNA SINGUEANA; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SNAKEBITE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; STERCULIA SETIGERA; STEREOSPERMUM KUNTHIANUM; STOMACH PAIN; STRYCHNOS INNOCUA; SUDAN; SYPHILIS; TAMARIND; TEPHROSIA UNIFLORA; TERMINALIA LAXIFLORA; TOOTH PAIN; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TREATMENT INDICATION; URINE RETENTION; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; VANGUERIA MADAGASCARIENSIS; WALTHERIA INDICA; WILD PLANT; WORM INFECTION; WOUND; XIMENIA AMERICANA; ZIZIPHUS SPINA CHRISTI;

EID: 80052828169     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19960875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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