Phytotherapy and womens reproductive health: The cameroonian perspective

Planta Medica

Volumn 79, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 600-611

  Njamen, Dieudonne ^a   Mvondo, Marie Alfrede ^a,b   Djiogue, Sefirin ^a   Ketcha Wanda, Germain Jean Magloire ^a   Magne Nde, Chantal Beatrice ^c   Vollmer, Günter ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DSCHANG   (Cameroon)

^c HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^d DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

abortifacient; African pharmacopoeia; anti infertility; emmenagogue; uterine flow suppressors; women reproductive health

Indexed keywords

ABORTIVE AGENT; ANTIESTROGEN; BLASTOCYTOTOXIC AGENT; HERBACEOUS AGENT; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; OXYTOCIC AGENT; POSTCOITUS CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PLANT EXTRACT;

AFRICA; ALOE BUTTNERI; BIRTH; BIRTH CONTROL; BRENANIA BRIEYI; BRIDELLIA FERRUGINEA; CAMEROON; DICLIPTERA VERTICILLATA; DYSMENORRHEA; ERYTHRINA LYSISTEMON; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FETAL MALPOSITION; FETUS DEATH; HIBISCUS; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; JUSTICIA INSULARIS; LIBIDO; MACRANTHUS; MALPRESENTATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; MILLETTIA CONRAUI; MILLETTIA DRASTICA; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMENORRHEA; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STEM; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PROTRACTED MENSTRUATION; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; REVIEW; SENECIO BIAFRAE; UTERUS BLOOD FLOW; WOMEN'S HEALTH; FEMALE; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE;

CAMEROON; FEMALE; FEMALE UROGENITAL DISEASES; HUMANS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84877873526     PISSN: 00320943     EISSN: 14390221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1328326     Document Type: Review

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