Traditional plant use in Burkina Faso (West Africa): A national-scale analysis with focus on traditional medicine

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Zizka, Alexander ^a   Thiombiano, Adjima ^c   Dressler, Stefan ^b,d   Nacoulma, Blandine ^c   Ouédraogo, Amadé ^c   Ouédraogo, Issaka ^c   Ouédraogo, Oumarou ^c   Zizka, Georg ^b,d,e   Hahn, Karen ^d,e   Schmidt, Marco ^b,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE OUAGADOUGOU   (Burkina Faso)

^d GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

Author keywords

Economic botany; Ethnobotany; Medicinal plants; Relative importance index; Traditional medicine; Usefulness; West Africa

Indexed keywords

ADANSONIA DIGITATA; ANIMALIA; APOCYNACEAE; ASTERACEAE; DIOSPYROS MESPILIFORMIS; FABACEAE; KHAYA SENEGALENSIS; MALVACEAE; POACEAE; RUBIACEAE; TAMARINDUS INDICA; VITELLARIA PARADOXA;

AFRICAN MEDICINE; BURKINA FASO; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; MEDICINAL PLANT; PHYTOTHERAPY; PROCEDURES; UTILIZATION;

BURKINA FASO; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; HUMANS; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

EID: 84929012493     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4269-11-9     Document Type: Article

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