Herbal remedies of the Batemi of Ngorongoro District, Tanzania: a quantitative appraisal

Plants used to treat epilepsy by Tanzanian traditional healers

“…Used against malaria (Mazzanti et al, 1983;Carpani et al, 1989;Chhabra and Uiso, 1991;Johns et al, 1994), fever (Hedberg et al, 1983;Johns et al, 1994); reported to be toxic (Galal et al, 1991a(Galal et al, , 1991b; inactive against Plasmodium falciparum (Weenen et al, 1990) …”

“…(Chhabra et al, 1984), Clausena anisata (Boye, 1990), Cassia fistula L. (Brandao et al, 1985), Albizia anthelmintica A. Brogne. (Hedberg et al, 1983;Johns et al, 1994) and Ageratum conyzoides L. (Zani et al, 1995). Some of these plants have also been used to treat malaria.…”

“…Plants reported to be used for the treatment of febrile convulsions are also potentially useful anticonvulsants, such as Ehretia amoena (Chhabra et al, 1987), Teclea nobilis Delile (Mascolo et al, 1988;Al Rehaily et al, 2001), Harrisonia abyssinica Oliv. (Hassanali et al, 1987;Johns et al, 1994), Cussonia spicata Thunb. (Chhabra et al, 1984), Clausena anisata (Boye, 1990), Cassia fistula L. (Brandao et al, 1985), Albizia anthelmintica A. Brogne.…”

“…Used for fever (Hassanali et al, 1987;Johns et al, 1994), malaria (Chhabra et al, 1993), found to be active against Plasmodium falciparum (Tahir et al, 1999) …”

Application of Diversity Indices to Appraise Plant Availability in the Traditional Medicinal Markets of Johannesburg, South Africa

“…An emergent trend in ethnobotanical studies has been the use of quantitative methods and models to describe patterns of plant use and availability in surveys or assessments of natural resources (e.g., Prance et al 1987;Phillips and Gentry 1993a, b;Johns et al 1994;Begossi 1996;Ho¨ft et al 1999;Hanazaki et al 2000;Luoga et al 2000;Cunningham 2001;Wong et al 2001), thereby allowing for a more rigorous statistical approach to the discipline. While a quantitative approach to the discipline is not always possible or even necessary, the benefits include: a greater depth to the understanding of the subject under investigation; a conscious attempt at reporting and refining methods employed to collect and evaluate the data; attention to sampling effort; economy of description and examination of patterns in the data; hypothesis testing; and the ability to question and describe more precisely the results of surveys.…”