Ethnobotanical Study of Plants Used in the Management of HIV/AIDS-Related Diseases in Livingstone, Southern Province, Zambia

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2016, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Chinsembu, Kazhila C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAMIBIA   (Namibia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT;

ABRUS; ABSCESS; ACACIA NILOTICA; ACHYRANTHES ASPERA; AFRICAN MEDICINE; ARTICLE; ASPARAGUS RACEMOSUS; BRIDELIA CATHARTICA; CAPPARIS TOMENTOSA; CLEOME HIRTA; CLERODENDRUM; CLERODENDRUM CAPITATUM; COMMON COLD; COUGHING; CYTOTOXICITY; DIARRHEA; DICHROSTACHYS CINEREA; DYSENTERY; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; ETHNOBOTANY; EUCLEA DIVINORUM; FEVER; FICUS SYCOMORUS; GARCINIA LIVINGSTONEI; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GONORRHEA; HEADACHE; HERPES ZOSTER; HOSLUNDIA OPPOSITA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPHAENE PETERSIANA; INFLUENZA; LIBIDO DISORDER; MALARIA; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MENINGITIS; MONOTHERAPY; MOUTH INFECTION; PILIOSTIGMA THONNINGII; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SKIN INFECTION; SKIN ULCER; SYPHILIS; TUBERCULOSIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ZAMBIA; ZIZIPHUS MUCRONATA;

EID: 84962812144     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2016/4238625     Document Type: Article

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