Cameroonian medicinal plants: a bioactivity versus ethnobotanical survey and chemotaxonomic classification
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Cameroonian medicinal plants: a bioactivity versus ethnobotanical survey and chemotaxonomic classification
BACKGROUND In Cameroon herbs are traditionally used to meet health care needs and plans are on the way to integrate traditional medicine in the health care system, even though the plans have not been put into action yet. The country however has a rich biodiversity, with ~8,620 plant species, some of which are commonly used in the treatment of several microbial infections and a range of diseases...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1472-6882
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-13-147