Medicinal plants used by traditional healers for the treatment of malaria in the Chipinge district in Zimbabwe

Abstract

Local knowledge of medicinal plants in the treatment of malaria still exists in all four villages surveyed and traditional healers appear to play an important role in primary health care services in this remote rural area in Zimbabwe. This explorative survey underscores the need to preserve and document traditional healing for managing malaria and for more future scientific research on the plants to determine their efficacy and their safety. This could improve their traditional anti-malarial recipes and might contribute to a better integration of Zimbabwean traditional medicine into the national health system in the future.

Savoir traditionnel sur les plantes antipaludiques à propriétés analgésiques, utilisées dans le district de Bamako (Mali)

“…Des travaux avaient signalé que les plantes antipaludiques étaient majoritairement des arbres ( (Asase et al, (2005(Asase et al, ( , 2010 ; Zirihi et al, 2010 ;Kasali et al, 2014). Quant à la partie utilisée, à notre connaissance aucun auteur n'a signalé la tige feuillée comme la plus utilisée mais plutôt la feuille (Caraballo et al, 2004;Asase et al, 2005;Koudouvo, 2009;Idowu et al, 2010;Saotoing et al, 2011;Traoré et al, 2013;Yetein et al, 2013;Kasali et al, 2014;Bla et al, 2015) et les racines (Ngarivhume et al, 2015). Par l'ATRM et l'ISS, la décoction ressort comme mode de préparation des recettes la plus utilisée avec 92,78% suivie de la macération (4,12%).…”

Phytochemical Analysis, Quantitative Estimations of Total Phenols and Free Radical Scavenging Activity of Bupleurum subovatum from Jerusalem

“…1,2 Moreover, it estimated that about 60% of the dosage forms in the pharmaceutical markets were derived from natural products. 3 In the recent years, there is a growing interest in the utilizations of herbal products.…”

Popular medicinal uses of Calea uniflora Less. (Asteraceae) and its contribution to the study of Brazilian medicinal plants

“…In the present study, 34.1% of participants identified as female homemakers and 22.3% were retired, including some women. In contrast, in ethnobotanical studies of plant use by traditional healers, in some cultures it may be more common for the repository of knowledge to lie predominantly with men (Ngarivhume et al 2015).…”