Medicinal Plants Used to Treat Malaria in Southern Benin

People in Benin who cannot resort to allopathic medicines provided by the pharmaceutical industry use many species of plants to alleviate malaria symptoms. Complicated mixtures of different parts of several plant species are employed orally or as a bathing substance. The inventory of 85 species and...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Economic botany 2004-12, Vol.58 (sp1), p.S239-S252
Hauptverfasser:	Hermans, Merel, Akoègninou, Akpovi, van der Maesen, L. Jos G
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Agronomy. Soil science and plant productions Analgesics antimalarial activity Antimalarials antiplasmodial activity Benin Biological and medical sciences Diuretics Economic botany Ethnopharmacology extracts flora of Benin Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology General pharmacology IC50 values (against Plasmodium falciparum) in-vitro Inhibitory concentration 50 Malaria markets Medical sciences Medicinal plants Parasites Pharmaceutical industry Pharmacognosy. Homeopathy. Health food Pharmacology. Drug treatments Plant species Plants s senegalensis Special Section on Medicinal Plants stem Vector-borne diseases
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Zusammenfassung:	People in Benin who cannot resort to allopathic medicines provided by the pharmaceutical industry use many species of plants to alleviate malaria symptoms. Complicated mixtures of different parts of several plant species are employed orally or as a bathing substance. The inventory of 85 species and 30 mixtures bought by us in southern Benin is by no means exhaustive, but the lists serve as examples of the widespread uses in medicine in a restricted area.
ISSN:	0013-0001 1874-9364
DOI:	10.1663/0013-0001(2004)58[S239:MPUTTM]2.0.CO;2