Ethnoveterinary plants of Ankober District, North Shewa Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Lulekal, Ermias ^a,b   Asfaw, Zemede ^b   Kelbessa, Ensermu ^b   Van Damme, Patrick ^a,c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Ethnomedicine; Fidelity level; Informants consensus factor; Preference ranking; Traditional healers; Traditional knowledge

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN MEDICINE; ETHIOPIA; ETHNOBOTANY; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICINAL PLANT; PHYTOTHERAPY; VETERINARY;

ETHIOPIA; ETHNOBOTANY; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

EID: 84894061657     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4269-10-21     Document Type: Article

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