Gems from traditional north-African medicine: medicinal and aromatic plants from Sudan

Natural Products and Bioprospecting

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 92-103

  Khalid, Hassan ^a   Abdalla, Wail Elsadig ^a   Abdelgadir, Haider ^a   Opatz, Till ^b   Efferth, Thomas ^b  

^a National Center for Research Sudan   (Sudan)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

herbal medicine; natural products; pharmacognosy; phytochemistry; phytotherapy; traditional medicine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869509678     PISSN: 21922195     EISSN: 21922209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13659-012-0015-2     Document Type: Review

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