Background: Of the approximately 2,076 plant species occurring in Lesotho, about 355 are used for medicinal purposes. Many communities country, mainly rural areas with limited access to health facilities, rely on traditional medicine as primary healthcare. Several publications provide helpful information plants purposes Lesotho. These include documentation of plants, investigation their therape...

helminths infections are chronic illness in human being and cattle. the use of alternate drugs has been a remedial measure against the resistant strains of helminth parasites, as well as means of reducing the cost of controlling diseases caused by helminthes. pseudocedrelakotschyi is a medicinally valuable plant and possesses various pharmacological properties. p. kotschyi has been traditionall...

The indigenous communities of Shishikoh valley are often using various ferns taxa regularly. current research work was intended for documenting the ethnomedicinal knowledge ferns. A total 18 were recorded that belonged to 9 genera and 6 families being used in treatment different ailments. Pteridaceae leading family with (33.33%), followed by Aspleniaceae 4 (22.22%), Athyriaceae Equisetaceae eac...

Background: Plants are the basic source of medicines to treat and remediate different health concerns. The current study was aimed evaluate knowledge folk medicinal Flora in Sellay Pattay valley, district Malakand, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Methods: Ethnomedicinal carried out document indigenous about use plants. data gathered through interviews with randomly chosen informants field. obtain...

Sikkim and Darjeeling Himalayan region is characterized by a rich floral diversity and an equally rich ethnomedicinal tradition. Herbal medicine is the dominant system of medicine practiced by the local tribes of this region for the treatment of diabetes. During the course of the present studies it was found that 37 species of plants belonging to 28 families are used as antidiabetic agents in t...

The present study was carried out to evaluate the hepatoprotective role of leaf extracts of Azadirachta indica A. Juss. Hepatoprotective activities of ethanolic and aqueous extracts of A. indica were examined against carbon tetrachloride induced liver damage in mice using silymarin as control. Enzyme activities of Serum Glutamate Oxaloacetate Transaminase (SGOT), Serum Glutamate Pyruvate Transa...

The present paper deals with the ethnomedicinal knowledge of 19 plant species belonging to 19 angiospermic families as gathered from tribals viz., Pawara, Bhil, Tadvi and Vanjara communities, besides other rural people of Jalgaon district (Maharashtra ). Out of 19 plant species studied, 05 species are used against dog bite, 05 species against snake bite, 06 species against scorpion sting, 05 sp...

Symphonia globulifera has been widely used in traditional medicine and has therefore been subjected to several phytochemical studies in the American and African continents. Interestingly, some disparities have been observed concerning its metabolic profile. Several phytochemical studies of S. globulifera have led to the identification of more than 40 compounds, including several polycyclic poly...

An ethnomedicinal study was conducted in ten villages of Paschim Medinipur district, West Bengal during 2012-2013 to collect information from traditional health healers/tribal communities on the use of medicinal plants for treatment of gynaecological problems among the women of the Lodha community. The tribal communities residing in this region are the Santhals, Mundas, Lodhas, Bhumijs, Oraon a...