Medicinal plants used for child's respiratory diseases in Zaire. Part I.
Traditional Medicine, as practised by the populations of developing Countries such as Zaire, traditionally use mostly plants for various illnesses. Within 300 km radius around Kinshasa, 94 plants used by various tradipractitioners to treat respiratory diseases in children were collected. These plants are identified, and the writers underline the role the tradipractitioner plays in gathering ethno-botanical and ethno-pharmacognostic data.
D002648:Child; D015023:Democratic Republic of the Congo; D006801:Humans; D010946:Plants, Medicinal / Q000145:classification; D012140:Respiratory Tract Diseases / Q000628:therapy*