An ethnopharmacological survey of medicinal plants traditionally used for cancer treatment in the Ashanti region, Ghana

Agyare, Christian; Spiegler, Verena; Asase, Alex; Scholz, Michael; Hempel, Georg; Hensel, Andreas

doi:10.1016/j.jep.2017.10.019

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“…Sixty-eight percent (68%) of the respondents claimed to have been practicing for 11-50 years (Figure 2(a)) with the majority (85.96%) having acquired the knowledge through ancestral inheritance. ese findings are similar to those of Agyare et al [16] and Agyare et al [26] in Ghana and Segun et al [13] in Nigeria. is profession requires a long experience for the practitioner to be able to identify plants for effective management of diseases.…”

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confidence: 90%

“…About healers' education level, 3.51% held a university degree, 28.07% attended high and middle school, 24.56% attended primary school, and 43.86% were illiterate (Figure 2(c)). In contrast, only 5% were illiterate or without any formal education in other surveys in Ghana [16].…”

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confidence: 70%

“…is ethnopharmacological survey was carried out according to the methods of Segun et al [13], Agyare et al [16], and Kantati et al [18]. e survey and data compilation took place from August 2018 to April 2019 in close cooperation with the national staff of CER-METRA based in the Central region.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…All participants were informed about the survey, and personal visits were made to their usual meeting centers. As Segun et al [13] and Agyare et al [16], before the interview, they were informed that some gifts in cash were provided to compensate their time and cost of travelling.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…ese surveys helped record local knowledge of healers and provided a database of plants used traditionally as anticancer plants for further preclinical and clinical studies. In Africa, most published data and ethnopharmacological surveys related to the anticancer potential of plants were from Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria, Egypt, Madagascar, Morocco, Algeria, and Ethiopia [13][14][15][16]. In Togo, some ethnopharmacological surveys have been conducted but they have not focused on cancer [17][18][19][20][21].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Ethnopharmacological Survey on Medicinal Plants Used by Traditional Healers in Central and Kara Regions of Togo for Antitumor and Chronic Wound Healing Effects

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Cancer is an emerging public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa. Several medicinal plants are used by traditional healers to treat tumors. In Togo, there are no recorded data for these plants but traditional healers claim to cure tumors with some success. So, information on medicinal plants used to cure human tumors and cancer could be of great importance for their widespread use and scientific validation. e present ethnopharmacological survey aims to record information on antitumor plants in central and Kara regions of Togo. Semistructured validated questionnaires were administered to fifty-seven traditional healers specialized in tumor management in 7 prefectures of Togo. Good practices and know-how were recorded. Quantitative ethnobotanical tools were used to analyze and summarize the data collected. 85 recipes of medicinal plants for tumors management are provided. In the local dialect, 78.95% of traditional healers do not have a clear tumor designation and 29.90% find that the causes of tumors remain unknown. According to 48.78% of traditional healers, the diagnosis of tumors in patients is made in the hospital. e types of tumors frequently treated are those of the breast (43.75%) and the lung (16.67%). e seventy listed medicinal plants belong to thirty-nine families, the most represented being Rubiaceae (17.95%), Caesalpiniaceae (12.82%), Fabaceae (10.26%), and Annonaceae (7.69%). e ten most cited species were Xylopia aethiopica, Aframomum melegueta, Khaya senegalensis, Parkia biglobosa, Piliostigma thonningii, Blighia sapida, Vitellaria paradoxa, Adansonia digitata, Annona muricata, and Parinari curatellifolia. Most of the recipes are prepared as decoction (40%) and administered orally (54.12%). Both regions of our study have a wealth of medicinal plants, and traditional healers would use their local knowledge in the management of various tumors and chronic wounds.

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confidence: 70%