Management, use and ecology of medicinal plants in the degraded dry lands of Tigray, Northern Ethiopia

Journal of Medicinal Plant Research

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 309-318

  Birhane, Emiru ^a,b   Aynekulu, Ermias ^a,c   Mekuria, Wolde ^a,d   Endale, Degitu ^a  

^a MEKELLE UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dry land; Ecology; Ethnobotany; Ethnomedicine; Healers; Management; Medicinal plants; Tigray

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT;

ACACIA; ACACIA ALBIDA; ACACIA ETABICA; ACACIA LEHAY; ACACIA NUBICA; ACACIA PILIPSINA; ACACIA SEYAL; ADANASONIA DIGITATA; ALISICORPUS FERRUGINEWS; ALLERGY; ARTICLE; AZADIRACHTA INDICA; BALANITES AEGYPTICA; BARK; BASCIA ONGUSTIFOLIA; BOSWELLIA PAPYRIFERA; CALOTROPIS PROCERA; CAPPARIS MICRANTHA; CORDIA AFRICANA; CRINUM SCHIMPERI; DELONIX REGIA; DUDONEA ANGUSTIFOLIA; ETHIOPIA; ETHNOBOTANY; EUCALYPTUS CAMALDULENSIS; EUCALYPTUS CAMALULENSIS; EUCALYPTUS CITIODORA; EUCALYPTUS GLOBULES; FICUS PALMATA; FICUS VASTA; HAGENIA ABYSINICA; HERB; HYPERICUM REVOLUTUM; JUNIPEROUS PROCERA; MEDICINAL PLANT; MELEA AZEDRACH; MYCOSIS; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; OLEA EUROPEAN; PILIOSTIGMA THONNINGII; PLANT ECOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; RHAMNUS PRINOIDES; ROZA ABYSSINICA; SALANUM INCANUM; SCHINUS MOLLE; SHRUB; SKIN DISEASE; SOLANUM INCUNUM; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TREE; WOUND; ZIZIPHUS SPINA;

EID: 84856150655     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19960875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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