The knowledge of medicinal plants in Africa today.

Abstract:

:The oral tradition for communication in Africa is stressed as well as the secrecy of the treatments with plants by traditional medicine-men. This makes it difficult to obtain more exact information on all the different aspects of traditional medicine. Nevertheless, some data have been collected in the Francophone countries. In English-speaking Africa efforts to gather information have also been made and a number of valuable reports and books published. A number of books report our present knowledge in the African regions south of the equator, mainly in Zambia.

journal_name

J Ethnopharmacol

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Lantum DN

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10.1016/0378-8741(80)90022-7

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Has Abstract

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1980-03-01 00:00:00

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9-17

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1

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0378-8741

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1872-7573

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0378-8741(80)90022-7

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2

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