Ethnobotanical information on plants used for the management of cardiovascular diseases in NKonkobe municipality, South Africa

Journal of Medicinal Plants Research

Volumn 5, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 4256-4260

  Olorunnisola, O S ^a   Bradley, G ^a   Afolayan, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FORT HARE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular diseases; Ethno medicine; Medicinal plants; Tulbaghia violacea

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT; HERBACEOUS AGENT;

AGATHOSMA BETULINA; ANGIOSPERM; APIALES; ARTICLE; ASTERACEAE; ASTHMA; BASIL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CISSAMPELOS; CISSAMPELOS CAPENSIS; DODONAEA ANGUSTIFOLIA; ELEPHANTORRHIZA ELEPHANTINE; ETHNOBOTANY; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GERANIACEAE; GERANIUM INCANUM; HEART DISEASE; HELICHRYSUM ODORATISSIMUM; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; INFUSION; LEGUME; LEONOTIS LEONURUS; LICHTENSTEINA LACERA; MENTAL DISEASE; MORNING DOSAGE; NONHUMAN; OLIVE TREE; OSTEOSPERMUM IMBRICATUM; PLANT BULB; PLANT CORM; PLANT IDENTIFICATION; PLANT LEAF; PLANT MORPHOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STEM; PROSTATE DISEASE; PSORIASIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RUTACEAE; SAPINDACEAE; SOUTH AFRICA; STROKE; THORAX PAIN; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ASTERACEAE; FABACEAE; HYPOXIDACEAE; TULBAGHIA VIOLACEA;

EID: 80052835220     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19960875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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