ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE The medicinal plants employed in the ethnomedicine of Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria are studied. AIM OF THE STUDY The survey aims at identifying and documenting the plants used amongst the indigenes of Akwa Ibom State. MATERIALS AND METHODS Using ethnobotanical survey list, information is gathered through personal interviews with traditional medical practitioners...

Tibetan ethnomedicine is famous worldwide, both for its high effectiveness and unique cultural background. Many poisonous plants have been widely used to treat disorders in the Tibetan medicinal system. In the present review article, some representative poisonous plant species are introduced in terms of their significance in traditional Tibetan medicinal practices. They are Aconitum pendulum, S...

The impacts of climate change were severe on indigenous medicinal plant species and their dependent communities. The harvesting calendar and picking sites of these species were no longer coinciding and the changes were affecting harvesters' and cultivators' abilities to collect and use those species. Secondary sites: road-heads, wastelands, regenerated forests, and so forth, were being prioriti...

BACKGROUND North-West of Pakistan is bestowed with medicinal plant resources due to diverse geographical and habitat conditions. The traditional use of plants for curing various diseases forms an important part of the region's cultural heritage. The study was carried out to document medicinal plants used in Frontier Region (FR) Bannu, an area affected by the "War on Terror". METHODS Fieldwork...

Studies related to ethnomedicines investigate the way people manage illness and diseases because of their cultural perspective. Fields like ecology, epidemiology, and medical history jointly contribute to the broad field of ethnomedical study. The knowledge gathered by traditional healers in the villages and tribal communities on natural medicines remains unfamiliar to the majority of scientist...

Ethnomedicinal field surveys were conducted in several places of Sonitpur district and near by areas of Lakhimpur district in Assam, where diverse ethnic groups have lived since time immemorial. The ethnic groups have very rich tradition of herbal medicines used in the treatment of various ailments. Among the tribal communities, Mishings constitute the largest group along with Bodos. The ethnom...

Medicinal plants have long been utilized in traditional medicine and ethnomedicine worldwide. This review presents a glimpse of the current status of and future trends in medicinal plant genomics, evolution, and phylogeny. These dynamic fields are at the intersection of phytochemistry and plant biology and are concerned with the evolution mechanisms and systematics of medicinal plant genomes, o...

CONTEXT The emergence and spread of Plasmodium falciparum-resistant parasites to nearly all available antimalarial drugs pose a threat to malaria control and necessitates the need to continue the search for new effective and affordable drugs. Ethnomedicine has been shown to be a potential source of antimalarial compounds or source of template for the synthesis of novel antimalarial molecules. ...

The aim of the study was to analyze the phytochemical constituents of two potential folklore medicinal plants such as Asteracantha longifolia and Pergularia daemia. Methanol and Aqueous extract of the dried leaves of these plants were collected and used for phytochemical analysis. The selected plants were found to contain alkaloids, phenolic compounds, tannins and flavonoids except for the abse...

Ficus thonningii is a plant that widely utilised in African ethnomedicine to cure variety of ailments. rational examination F. thonningii's nutritional, phytochemical, and pharmacological characteristics connection its medicinal uses.Alkaloids, terpenoids, flavonoids, tannins, active proteins are among the bioactive components found thonningii, all which contribute therapeutic qualities.Continu...