Ethnobotanical survey on medicinal plants used by Guinean traditional healers in the treatment of malaria

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 150, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1145-1153

  Traore, M S ^a,b   Balde M A ^a,b   Diallo, M S T ^a,b   Balde E S ^a,b   Diane S ^a,b   Camara, A ^a,b   Diallo, A ^a,b   Balde, A ^a   Keita A ^a,b   Keita, S M ^a   Oulare K ^b,c   Magassouba, F B ^a,b   Diakite I ^b   Pieters, L ^d   Balde A M ^a,b  

^a Université Gamal Abdel Nasser de Conakry   (Guinea)

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

^c University of Kankan   (Guinea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ethnobotanical survey; Guinea; Malaria

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANACARDIACEAE; ANNONA SENEGALENSIS; ANNONACEAE; APOCYNACEAE; ARTICLE; ASTERACEAE; BARK; BIGNONIACEAE; BROMELIACEAE; CHAMAECRISTA; CHRYSOBALANACEAE; COMBRETACEAE; CROSSOPTERYX FEBRIFUGA; DILLENIACEAE; DIPTEROCARPACEAE; EBENACEAE; ETHNOBOTANY; EUPHORBIACEAE; FABACEAE; FEMALE; GUINEA; HARUNGANA MADAGASCARIENSIS; HUMAN; HYPERICACEAE; LAURACEAE; LECYTHIDACEAE; LOGANIACEAE; LYTHRACEAE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MALVACEAE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MELIACEAE; MORACEAE; MUSACEAE; MYRTACEAE; NAUCLEA LATIFOLIA; NAUCLEA POBEGUINII; OCHNACEAE; OLACACEAE; PARKIA BIGLOBOSA; PHYLLANTHACEAE; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STEM; POACEAE; RUBIACEAE; RUTACEAE; SAPINDACEAE; SAPOTACEAE; SCROPHULARIACEAE; SIMAROUBACEAE; TERMINALIA; TERMINALIA ALBIDA; TERMINALIA MACROPTERA; TRADITIONAL HEALER; ULMACEAE; VERBENACEAE; VISMIA GUINEENSIS; VITACEAE;

ANNONA SENEGALENSIS; CROSSOPTERYX FEBRIFUGA; HARUNGANA MADAGASCARIENSIS; NAUCLEA; NAUCLEA LATIFOLIA; PARKIA BIGLOBOSA; TERMINALIA; TERMINALIA MACROPTERA; VISMIA GUINEENSIS;

ETHNOBOTANICAL SURVEY; GUINEA; MALARIA;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIMALARIALS; ETHNOBOTANY; FEMALE; GUINEA; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84889098782     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: 18727573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2013.10.048     Document Type: Article

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