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Ethnomedicinal study of plants used for human ailments in Ankober District, North Shewa Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, August 2013
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Title
Ethnomedicinal study of plants used for human ailments in Ankober District, North Shewa Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia
Published in
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, August 2013
DOI 10.1186/1746-4269-9-63
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Authors

Ermias Lulekal, Zemede Asfaw, Ensermu Kelbessa, Patrick Van Damme

Abstract

Ankober District has long been inhabited by people who have a long tradition of using medicinal plants to treat human ailments. Overexploitation of medicinal plants coupled with an ever-increasing population growth, deforestation and agricultural land expansion threatens plants in the area. Hence, this study aimed at documenting and analyzing the plant-based ethnomedicinal knowledge of the people in order to preserve the dwindling indigenous knowledge.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Ecuador 1 <1%
Unknown 213 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 29 13%
Researcher 29 13%
Student > Master 17 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 16 7%
Other 14 6%
Other 56 26%
Unknown 55 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 52 24%
Environmental Science 22 10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 15 7%
Medicine and Dentistry 11 5%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 9 4%
Other 41 19%
Unknown 66 31%
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#17,708,224
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