Management of diabetes in Guinean traditional medicine: An ethnobotanical investigation in the coastal lowlands

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 353-361

  Diallo, Abdoulaye ^a   Traore, Mohamed Sahar ^a   Keita, Sékou Moussa ^b   Balde, Mamadou Aliou ^a   Keita, Abdoulaye ^c   Camara, Mohamed ^d   Miert, Sabine Van ^e   Pieters, Luc ^e   Balde, Aliou Mamadou ^a  

^a Research and Valorization Center on Medicinal Plants   (Guinea)

^b Environement Study and Research Center (CERE)   (Guinea)

^c Université Gamal Abdel Nasser de Conakry   (Guinea)

^d Agricultural Research Center of Foulaya   (Guinea)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Antidiabetic plants; Diabetes; Guinea Conakry; Herbalists; Traditional healers; Traditional medicine

Indexed keywords

GLIBENCLAMIDE; HERBACEOUS AGENT; METFORMIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANACARDIACEAE; ANNONACEAE; APIACEAE; APOCYNACEAE; ARALIACEAE; ARECACEAE; ARTICLE; ASTERACEAE; BALSAMINACEAE; BARK; BIGNONIACEAE; BORAGINACEAE; CAESALPINIOIDEAE; CANNACEAE; CARICACEAE; CASHEW NUT; CHRYSOBALANACEAE; CLUSIACEAE; COMBRETACEAE; CONVOLVULACEAE; DENNSTAEDTIACEAE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DILLENIACEAE; ETHNOBOTANY; EUPHORBIACEAE; FABACEAE; FEMALE; FICUS CAPENSIS; HUMAN; HYMENOCARDIACEAE; HYPERICACEAE; LAMIACEAE; LILIACEAE; LOGANIACEAE; LORANTHACEAE; LYTHRACEAE; MALE; MALVACEAE; MARANTACEAE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MELASTOMATACEAE; MELIACEAE; MIMOSOIDEAE; MORACEAE; MUSACEAE; MYRTACEAE; OCHNACEAE; PANDACEAE; PAPILIONOIDEAE; PASSIFLORACEAE; PILIOSTIGMA TONNINGUII; POACEAE; POLYGALACEAE; PRIMULACEAE; RHAMNACEAE; RUBIACEAE; RUTACEAE; SAPINDACEAE; SAPOTACEAE; SIMAROUBACEAE; SOLANACEAE; TRADITIONAL HEALER; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; ULMACEAE; VERBANACEAE; VITACEAE; ZINGIBERACEAE;

DATA COLLECTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNOBOTANY; FEMALE; GUINEA; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT PREPARATIONS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

ANACARDIUM OCCIDENTALE; CHAENOMELES SPECIOSA; EUPHORBIACEAE; FABACEAE; RUBIACEAE;

EID: 84868205651     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: 18727573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2012.09.020     Document Type: Article

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