| medicinal plants from riau province, sumatra, indonesia. part 1: uses. | one hundred and fourteen species of flowering plants, claimed to have medicinal uses, were recorded from a previously uninvestigated area of sumatra. of the specimens, which belonged to 51 families, 50% were used to combat fever, 33% for diarrhoea and 31% for other gastrointestinal problems. external applications were often used to treat internal conditions, particularly fever. species new to the ethnomedical literature are garcinia parvifolia, scleria purpurescens, galearia filiformis, litsea e ... | 1995 | 7776664 |
| some effects of feeding tribulus terrestris, ipomoea lonchophylla and the seed of abelmoschus ficulneus on fetal development and the outcome of pregnancy in sheep. | pregnant ewes and their fetuses were chronically catheterized using aseptic procedures under general anaesthesia, and the ewes were then fed either lucerne chaff alone, or lucerne mixed with dried plant material obtained from one of three forb species, tribulus terrestris (caltrop), abelmoschus ficulneus (native rosella) or ipomoea lonchophylla (cowvine), from 103-112 days gestation until term. ingestion of the forb material was not associated with changes in maternal blood gases, plasma glucose ... | 1992 | 1438942 |