Medicinal plants of the Kamiesberg, Namaqualand, South Africa

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 171, Issue , 2015, Pages 205-222

  Nortje, J M ^a   Van Wyk, B E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Khoisan; Medicinal plants; Nama; Namaqualand; Quantitative ethnobotany; Traditional knowledge

Indexed keywords

ACORUS CALAMUS; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGATHOSMA BETULINA; ALOE FEROX; ALOE MICROSTIGMA; ANGINON DIFFORME; ANIMAL PRODUCT; ANTIZOMA MIERSIANA; ARCTOTIS LAEVIS; ARTEMISIA ABSINTHIUM; ARTEMISIA AFRA; ARTEMISIA VULGARIS; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; ASCLEPIAS CRISPA; ASPALATHUS LINEARIS; BACKACHE; BALLOTA AFRICANA; BULBINE FRUTESCENS; BULBINE PRAEMORSA; CARPOBROTUS EDULIS; CHAPPED LIPS; CHEILANTHES INDUTA; CHILD; COLD; COLIC; CONICOSIA ELONGATA; CONVULSION; COTYLEDON ORBICULATA; CRISPA SUTHERLANDIA FRUTESCENS; DATURA STRAMONIUM; DIABETES MELLITUS; DICOMA CAPENSIS; DIOSMA ACMAEOPHYLLA; DIPHTHERIA; DITTRICHIA GRAVEOLENS; DOCUMENTATION; DODONAEA VISCOSA; EPISTAXIS; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOBOTANY; EUCALYPTUS SIDEROXYLON; EUPHORBIA MAURITANICA; EURYOPS LATERIFLORA; FEVER; FLATULENCE; GALIUM NAMAQUENSE; GOUT; GUNNERA PERPENSA; HEADACHE; HELICHRYSUM RUTILANS; HEMORRHOID; HERMBSTAEDIA GLAUCA; HUMAN; INTESTINE PARASITE; INTOXICATION; KHOISAN; LEONOTIS LEONURUS; LIMEUM AFRICANUM; LOBOSTEMON PANICULATUS; MASTITIS; MEASLES; MEDICINAL PLANT; MENTHA LONGIFOLIA; MENTHA SPICATA; NAMA; NEOPLASM; NICOTIANA GLAUCA; NONHUMAN; NOTOBUBON PEARSONII; OLIVE TREE; ONCOSIPHON SUFFRUTICOSUM; OTHONNA DAUCIFOLIA; PAIN; PELARGONIUM HYPOLEUCUM; PTERONIA CINEREA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RICINUS COMMUNIS; RUMEX CORDATUS; RUTA GRAVEOLENS; SCELETIUM TORTUOSUM; SENECIO CINERASCENS; SENECIO SCAPIFLORUS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOLANUM GUINEENSE; SORE THROAT; SOUTH AFRICA; STOMACH DISEASE; STOMACH PAIN; STOMACH ULCER; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SUNBURN; THRUSH; TINEA; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TUBERCULOSIS; TYLECODON WALLICHII; VISCUM CAPENSE; ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN MEDICINE; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYTOTHERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT PREPARATIONS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; SOUTH AFRICA; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84934921467     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: 18727573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2015.04.049     Document Type: Article

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