Over 25% of our common medicines contain at least some compounds obtained from plants. Nupeland located on the coastal basins of Rivers Niger and Kaduna in North Central Nigeria is greatly influenced by the savannah-forest vegetations with biodiversity rich in medicinal plants. This type of vegetation also harbours tsetsefly which are the vector of trypanosomes, thus making the area highly ende...

This paper provides a preliminary evaluation of fifty-eight ethnomedicinal plants used in Trinidad and Tobago for skin problems, stomach problems, pain and internal parasites for safety and possible efficacy. Thirty respondents, ten of whom were male were interviewed from September 1996 to September 2000 on medicinal plant use for health problems. The respondents were obtained by snowball sampl...

Jujube or ber (Ziziphus spp.) is one of the most important fruit crops India’s arid and semi-arid regions because its high adaptability to resource constraints hot (semi)arid region. a rich source minerals, vitamins dietary antioxidants zone dwellers, where it known as poor man’s apple. Given present rising trends in discovering exploiting plant-based health-promoting compounds, imperative know...