Ghana's herbal market

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 368-378

  Van Andel, Tinde ^a   Myren, Britt ^b   Van Onselen, Sabine ^c  

^a UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN BRANCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Commercial trade; Ethnobotany; Ritual; Traditional medicine; West Africa; Women's health

Indexed keywords

APHRODISIAC AGENT;

ABORTION; AFRAMOMUM MELEGUETA; AFRICA; AFROSTYRAX LEPIDOPHYLLUS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BARK; BIODIVERSITY; CAESALPINIA BONDUC; CHILD CARE; DANIELA OGEA; DICHROSTACHYS CINEREA; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FADOGIA AGRESTIS; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FEVER; FRUIT; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GHANA; GRIFFONIA SIMPLICIFOLIA; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; KHAYA SENEGALENSIS; MALARIA; MARKET; MEDICINAL PLANT; MOMORDICA CHARANTIA; MONODORA MYRISTICA; MORINDA LUCIDA; MUCUNA SLOANEI; NONHUMAN; OCIMUM AMERICANUM; OKOUBAKA AUBREVILLEI; PARKIA BIGLOBOSA; PERICOPSIS ELATA; PIPER GUINEENSIS; PLANT ROOT; PLANT SEED; PREGNANCY; PTELEOPSIS SUBEROSA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAUVOLFIA VOMITORIA; RITUAL; SECURIDACA LONGIPEDUNCULATA; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SORGHUM; SPHENOCENTRUM JOLLYANUM; SPICE; STROPHANTHUS HISPIDUS; VITELLARIA PARADOXA; VOACANGA AFRICANA; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOOD; XYLOPIA; XYLOPIA AETHIOPICA; ZANTHOXYLUM ZANTHOXYLOIDES;

COMMERCE; DATA COLLECTION; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; GHANA; HUMANS; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT PREPARATIONS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

AFRAMOMUM MELEGUETA; FADOGIA; GRIFFONIA SIMPLICIFOLIA; KHAYA SENEGALENSIS; MONODORA MYRISTICA; PTELEOPSIS SUBEROSA; VOACANGA AFRICANA; XYLOPIA AETHIOPICA;

EID: 84858007181     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: 18727573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2012.01.028     Document Type: Article

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