Ethnobotanical study of indigenous knowledge on medicinal and nutritious plants used to manage opportunistic infections associated with HIV/AIDS in western Uganda

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 155, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 194-202

  Mugisha, Maud Kamatenesi ^a   Asiimwe, Savina ^a   Namutebi, Agnes ^a   Borg Karlson, Anna Karin ^b   Kakudidi, Esezah Kyomugisha ^a  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ethnobotanical study; HIV AIDS; Nutri medicinal plants; Opportunistic infections; Uganda

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT;

ABUTILON; ABUTILON GUINEENSE; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ALBIZIA CORIARIA; ANEMIA; APPETITE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CONSENSUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNOBOTANY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GUAVA; HERPES ZOSTER; HIBISCUS SABDARIFFA; HOSLUNDIA OPPOSITA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MANGO; MAYTENUS; MAYTENUS SENEGALENSIS; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICINAL PLANT; NORMAL HUMAN; OCIMUM; OCIMUM SUAVE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; POISON IVY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RHUS NATALENSIS; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SEMI STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; SKIN INFECTION; SYPHILIS; TARENNA PAVETTOIDES; THRUSH; TRADITIONAL BIRTH ATTENDANT; TRADITIONAL HEALER; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TUBERCULOSIS; UGANDA; ZEHNERIA SCABRA; AFRICAN MEDICINE; AGED; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHEMISTRY; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYTOTHERAPY; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ETHNOBOTANY; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT PREPARATIONS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; UGANDA;

EID: 84904974622     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: 18727573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2014.05.012     Document Type: Article

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