Use of herbal, complementary and alternative medicines during pregnancy, labour delivery is common in Zimbabwe. This study aimed at documenting used pregnancy Makoni District Snowballing was to select 66 participants which included herbalists (45.5%), traditional birth attendants (18.2%), healers (15.2%), assistant herbal medicine vendors (10.6% each). Pregnant women the areaused a total 47 pla...

This paper presents the result of a study on the herbal drugs in the herbal markets in Mersin and Adana. The data were collected through direct interviews with herbalists and customers between 2002-2005 and the popular medicinal plants were investigated. A total of 107 species belonging to 56 families were investigated and the samples were listed with their local and Latin names. The investigat...

An ethnobotanical study was carried out in the Saïda region among herbalists to evaluate the use of Salvia argentea (L.), a plant species native from North Africa belonging to the Lamiaceae family. Forty-two herbalists were interviewed individually, aged between 30 and 70 years, all males, 52.38% of them having received a secondary education level and having performing their duties for more tha...

The study aimed to describe jamu as herbal medicine, the of health communication, and philosophy a cultural identity. community's medicine consumption habit fertile land conditions allow community planting various rhizome species medicines. Indonesians are familiar with family medicinal plants (TOGA, Tanaman Obat Keluarga), consisting fruits, vegetables, rhizomes, seasoning ingredients. data we...

In Mali, the empirical knowledge on plant medicine is held by traditional practioners. Scientific studies have been carried on some plants and they have confirmed their local uses, but few data are available on the toxicity of Malian medicinal plants. In the present work, we record the toxic plants used as medicines in the Bamako district, Mali, with the aim to evaluate the knowledge of traditi...

and conventional practitioners. The second chapter focused on Bedouins’ healing practices in a variety of human ailments. The third chapter discussed general treatments and methods used by Bedouins, and these are related to birds, reptiles, animals, and camel milk. The last chapter was on Bedouins’s belief in “Qarina”, which is a Jinn and indicated by 12 different names. In the author’s opinion...

In the last few months there have been three letters in The Lancet, follow-up articles in most of the national newspapers including The Times and The Sunday Times, and discussions on the Jimmy Young Show on the toxicity of herbal medicines and a potential link with liver fatality. Subsequently, rumours have been spreading as to inherent dangers in herbal prescriptions and possible restrictions ...

The study attempts to elucidate the problem of management snakebites and envenomations in rural areas. It aims assess snakebite cases Bonginda group Equateur, DR Congo. A survey was conducted during period from January 2019 December 2020. In addition, doctors Health Zone, traditional healers a few resource persons such as herbalists people who have been treated for bites were contacted. nature ...