Medicinal Plants Useful For Malaria Therapy In Okeigbo, Ondo State, Southwest Nigeria

Abstract

There is increasing resistance of malaria parasites to chloroquine, the cheapest and commonly used drug for malaria in Nigeria. Artemisin, a product from medicinal plant indigenous to China, based on active principle of Artemisia annua, has been introduced into the Nigerian market. However not much has been done to project antimalaria properties of indigenous medicinal plants. This study thus, has the main objective of presenting medicinal plants used for malaria therapy in Okeigbo, Ondo State, South west Nigeria. Focus group discussions and interview were held about plants often found useful for malaria therapy in the community. Fifty species (local names) including for example: Morinda lucida (Oruwo), Enantia chlorantha (Awopa), Alstonia boonei (Ahun), Azadirachta indica (Dongoyaro) and Khaya grandifoliola (Oganwo) plants were found to be in use for malaria therapy at Okeigbo, Southwest, Nigeria. The parts of plants used could either be the barks, roots, leaves or whole plants. The recipes also, could be a combination of various species of plants or plant parts. This study highlights potential sources for the development of new antimalarial drugs from indigenous medicinal plants found in Okeigbo, Nigeria.

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“…The leave of Morinda lucida mix together with the bark of Khaya spp are used in the treatment of Malaria are equally reported. This is in tandem with Sofowora, (1993) and Odugbemi et al, 2007 that Morinda lucida and Khaya spp were found to be in use for malaria therapy in Okeigbo area of Ondo-State, Nigeria. The mixtures of other plant species in treating ailments such as Anemia, dysentery and diabetics were also observed as presented in Table 1.…”

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