Ethnomedicinal study of major species in the family Labiatae from Kenya

dc.contributor.author	Githinji, CW
dc.contributor.author	Kokwaro, JO
dc.date.accessioned	2013-06-06T10:41:40Z
dc.date.available	2013-06-06T10:41:40Z
dc.date.issued	1993-08
dc.identifier.citation	J Ethnopharmacol. 1993 Aug;39(3):197-203	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8258977
dc.identifier.uri	http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/29171
dc.description.abstract	The family Labiatae, commonly called the mint family, is one of the flowering group of plants that has been found to have great medicinal potential. In this study, at least twenty-eight (28) indigenous species which are popular among Kenyan herbalists have been collected from the Rift Valley and central parts of Kenya. Preliminary chemical analysis of the Ocimum genus has revealed several different components of essential oils. There is evidence that further and more intensive research on the medicinal aspects of the family is called for	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	University of Nairobi.	en
dc.title	Ethnomedicinal study of major species in the family Labiatae from Kenya	en
dc.type	Article	en
local.publisher	Department of Botany, University of Nairobi, Kenya	en