Ficus thonningii is an African ethnomedicine plant used to treat a number of diseases. The nutritional, phytochemical, and pharmacological aspects F. in relation its therapeutic purposes are numerous. contains alkaloids, terpenoids, flavonoids, tannins, active proteins, proteins. Continue identify, isolate, quantify the ingredients, as well their medicinal purposes. Chronic toxicity, toxicology...

BACKGROUND Fish-based therapeutics is fundamentally based on a dietary use, but these vertebrates have also been employed in the treatment of infectious and parasitic diseases, during pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum and to deal with diseases of the different systems. METHODS An overview of the ethnomedical and historical Spanish literature has been carried out. Automated searches in the ...

An ethnobotanical and ethnopharmacognostic survey has been carried out in one of the most isolated mountainous area in Europe: the village of Lepushe and its surrounding territory, in the Northern Albanian Alps. Approximately 70 botanical taxa and 160 preparations, mainly derived from plants, but also derived from animal products or minerals, have been recorded. The archaic belief of the signat...

Diabetes mellitus is the most common metabolic disorder affecting millions worldwide. It is recognized as a global major health problem. As alternatives to the available orthodox medicines, plants are considered a potential source for the treatment of diabetes within traditional ethnomedicine practices. In the Jordanian traditional medicine a significant selection of ethnobotanicals is promoted...

Background: Combretum nigricans (Combretaceae) is a small, smooth bark tree used in traditional medicine for the treatment of prurigo, dysentery, fever and other symptoms acute malaria North-Central Nigeria. Materials Methods: The antimalarial activity C hydro-methanol crude leaf extract was evaluated against Plasmodium berghei mice. Peters’ 4-day suppressive test early infection Rane’s curativ...