CERTIFIATION Head of Departement Dedication (original) (raw)
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN AFRICA FACULTY OF SCIENCE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL SCIENCE
Medicinal Plants Used By Kalenjins At Kuresoi Constituency to Cure Circulatory and Uterine Diseases, 2011
I am grateful to all those who have helped me at different levels of this study through their material, moral and any other support. Special thanks to my colleagues in this course Simon Bodo and Clara Kilaha for their moral support during the research. Special thanks to my Plant Systematics and Research Project lecturers; Dr. Bethwell Owuor and Dr. Genevieve Mwayuli for their inspiration, encouragement, support and challenge before and during the research. My special thanks to the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word of Houston (CCVI) for their moral, financial and spiritual support during my study. In this regard my very special thanks go to Sts. Catherine and Bakhita community members for their understanding and support; Sr. Mary Tobin, and all the community members. May God bless you! Special thanks to my beloved parents Mr. Joseph Marindany and Mrs. Ruth Marindany who took keen interest on my research, encouraged me and liaised me with the right people during collection of data. God bless you for your great love and encouragement! Special thanks to mummy, Mrs. Lillian Koskei, the mother to one of my community members, Sr. Scholastica Chebet Koskei, and to Chebet herself who both took keen interest in my study and liaised me with the right people in Kiptaragon, Olenguruone. May the Lord reward you in abundance Chebet and Mummy! Special thanks to Mrs. Martha Soi, Chepkerichot mwenyewe in Kiptaragon, for her gracious generosity in her input, understanding and help in taking me around Kiptaragon area to other chepkerichinik (medicine men and women). v Special thanks to my sister-in-law, Mrs. Sally Kilel, of Chebewor Londiani for her generous input and for taking me around Chebewor area to meet and discuss with chepkerichinik. Special thanks to Dominic Kibet Rotich of Chepsir for connecting me with the people of Chepsir, Kipkelion and to his brother, his wife and their oldest daughter, Mr. Alphonse and Mrs. Sally Rotich's family for their graciousness and assistance during collection of data in Chepsir. Very special thanks to all the respondents. Special thanks to Mrs. Betty Rogony of Chebewor for her graciousness. I sincerely thank Mr. John Mureithi, the CUEA Chemistry lab technician for his untiring help and patience to find different chemicals I needed when I was carrying out phytochemical analysis in the lab. Thanks too to Ms Monica and Susan, the lab technicians of CUEA Chemistry and Biology labs for their help in the same. My thanks also go to the Herbarium Librarians at the Museums of Kenya for their graciousness and help when I was searching for the scientific names of the plants recorded from data collection. Thanks to Abdillahi Halima Saado from the Museums of Kenya Herbarium, for her help in guiding me find methods of phenolics screening. May God bless and reward you! Finally and always, special thanks to God the Almighty who enabled me and all the people who assisted me to see the completion of this study.
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Cellter for African Area Studies. Kyoto Unil'ersity
2016
Quite many plants are used by the Balese cultivators and the Efe hunter-gatherers who live in the midst of the tropical rain forest of Zaire. In total, 533 pieces of use information on 281 plants were gathered and presented here with scientific names, botanical information, usage categories. the etymology of vernacular names, and comparative notes with the plant utilization observed among the Tetri net-hunters by Tanno (1981).