Historical versus contemporary medicinal plant uses in Ghana

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 160, Issue , 2015, Pages 109-132

  Soelberg, J ^a   Asase, A ^b   Akwetey, G ^b   Jager A K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Ashanti; Ethnopharmacology; Fante; Ga; Ghana; Historical materia medica

Indexed keywords

MATERIA MEDICA;

ACANTHACEAE; AFRICAN MEDICINE; AIZOACEAE; AMARANTHACEAE; AMARYLLIDACEAE; ANACARDIACEAE; ANNONACEAE; APOCYNACEAE; ARECACEAE; ARTICLE; BALANOPHORACEAE; BIGNONIACEAE; BORAGINACEAE; CAPPARACEAE; CELASTRACEAE; COLCHICACEAE; CONNARACEAE; CONVOLVULACEAE; CUCURBITACEAE; DRUG USE; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; EUPHORBIACEAE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GHANA; HISTORY; HUMAN; LAMIACEAE; LEGUME; LORANTHACEAE; MALVACEAE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MELIACEAE; MENISPERMACEAE; MORACEAE; NYCTAGINACEAE; OLEACEAE; ONAGRACEAE; PHYLLANTHACEAE; PHYTOLACCACEAE; PLANTAGINACEAE; RUBIACEAE; RUTACEAE; SALICACEAE; SAPINDACEAE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOLANACEAE; URTICACEAE; VERBENACEAE; VITACEAE; XANTHORRHOEACEAE; ZINGIBERACEAE; CLASSIFICATION; PHYTOTHERAPY; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

GHANA; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

EID: 84918564244     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: 18727573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2014.11.036     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Abbiw, D., 1990. Useful plants of Ghana. Intermediate Technology Publications and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
2. P. Ascherson Botanisch-ethnographische Notizen aus Guinea. Aus den Aufzeichnungen von Thonning in Schumachers Beskrivelse af Guineiske Planter Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 11 1879 231 255
3. Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia M.N.B. Ayiku 1992 Technology Transfer Center Ghana
4. B.A. Ayinde, D.N. Onwukaeme, and Z.A.M. Nworgu Oxytocic effects of the water extract of Musanga cecropioides R. Brown (Moraceae) stem bark African Journal of Biotechnology 5 14 2006 1350 1354
5. Bosman, W., 1703. A new and accurate description of the coast of Guinea, London.
6. Bouquet, A., Debray, M., 1974. Plantes médicinales the Côte dIvoire. Trav. Doc. O.R.S.T.O.M. 13.
7. T.E. Bowdich Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantie, with a statistical account of that kingdom, and geographical notices of other parts of the interior of Africa 1819 J. Murray London
8. H.M. Burkill The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa third ed. 2000 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew United Kingdom
9. J.M. Dalziel The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa 1937 Crown Agents London
10. O.B. Dokosi Herbs of Ghana 1998 University Press, Accra Ghana
11. Hepper, F.N., Neate, F., 1971. Plant collectors in West Africa. Oosthoek, Utrecht.
12. Ghana Statistical Service 2010 - Population and Housing Consensus 2012 Sakoa Press Ltd. Accra
13. Hepper F. N., 1976. The West African herbaria of Isert and Thonning. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
14. D. Hopkins Peter Thonning and Denmarks Guinea Commission: A Study in Nineteenth-Century African Colonial Geography 2012 Brill Leiden
15. J.W. Hornemann Review of Schumachers Beskrivelse af guinesiske planter Maanedskrift for litteratur 1 1827 315 322
16. Hutchinson, J., Dalziel, J.M., Keay, R.W.J.; Hepper, F.N., 1954-72. Flora of West Tropical Africa 1-3. Crown Agents, London.
17. F.R. Irvine Plants of the Gold Coast 1930 Oxford University Press London
18. Irvine, F.R., 1961. Woody plants of Ghana. O.U.P., London.
19. P.E. Isert Reise nach Guinea S.A. Winsnes, 2007. Letters on West Africa and the Slave Trade. Paul Erdmann Iserts Journey to Guinea and the Carribean Islands in Columbia (1788) 1788 Sub-Saharan Publishers Accra
20. R. Kamgang, E.V.P. Kamgne, M.C. Fonkoua, V.P.N. Beng, and M.B. Sida Activities of aqueous extracts of Mallotus oppositifolius on Shigella dysenteriae A1-induced diarrhea in rats Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology 33 1-2 2006 89 94
21. Neuwinger, H.D., 2000. African traditional medicine. Medpharm, Stuttgart.
22. J. Petiver A Catalogue of Some Guinea-Plants, with Their Native Names and Virtues Philosophical Transactions 1753 19 1697 677 686
23. Plant Resources of Tropical Africa, 2014. Published on the Internet: 〈http://www.prota4u.info/〉 (accessed 01.07.14).
24. Schumacher, C.F., 1827. Beskrivelse af guineiske Planter, som ere fundne af danske Botanikere, især af Etatsraad Thonning. Hartv. Frid. Popps Bogtrykkerie, Copenhagen.
25. The Plant List, 2014. Version 1.1. Published on the Internet: 〈http://www.theplantlist.org/〉 (accessed 01.07.14).