As herbs are simple to cultivate and abundant, they are easy to harvest, process, and prepare for pharmacological consumption [42]. It is believed that the medicinal benefits of a plant increase with its abundance [43]. Moreover, obvious or salient plants are frequently collected [8]. In ...
Medicinal and herbal composition and uses thereofThe subject application provides compositions and methods for treating HIV/AIDS and other diseases. The compositions contain herbs or extracts of herbs found in Kenya, and naltrexone.doi:US8404284 B2Maria Medina...
Zootherapy is important in various socio-cultural environments, and innumerous examples of the use of animal derived remedies can currently be found in many urban, semi-urban and more remote localities in all parts of the world, particularly in developing countries. However, although a number of ...
Mathias-Mundy E: Of herbs and healers. Book Of herbs and healers. 1989, City: ILEIA, 5: 20-22. edition pp 20-22 Google Scholar Souto WMS, Mourão JS, Barboza RRD, Alves RRN: Parallels between zootherapeutic practices in Ethnoveterinary and Human Complementary Medicine in NE Brazil. J...
In Central Kenya, information on the use of traditional medicinal plants was documented (Gachathi, 2007, Kokwaro, 1976, Sindiga et al., 1990, Sindiga et al., 1995). However, a detailed account of the current use of traditional antidiabetic herbs in Nyeri County was not documented. Yet...
Plant Chinese herbs in Africa During an interview with Xinhua, Martin Chedondo, the ambassador of Zimbabwe to China, said that Zimbabwe's trade delegation to the expo hopes to explore opportunities to bring home herbal planting, processing, and laboratory testing technologies in order...
Traditional management of ear, nose and throat (ENT) diseases in Central Kenya The most common ENT conditions managed using traditional therapies include: common cold, cough, tonsillitis, otitis-media, chest pains and asthma. The ... GN Njoroge,RW Bussmann - 《Journal of Ethnobiology & ...
Traditional healers are divided into two broad groups of herbalists who mainly use herbs while diviners also invoke ancestral spirits to guide them in their healing practice [34–36]. They provided information on plants and parts used, ailments treated, mode of preparation and administration, ...
However, seasonal herbs may not be accessible at certain times, especially if sourced from the wild [8]. Fig. 3 Growth forms of medicinal plants for human Ailments Full size image In contrast, a larger number of studies have reported the use of shrubs and trees [9, 13, 44,45,46], ...
Shown in Table 2, the local Mongol herdsmen frequently use herbaceous plants for medicine. Table 2 Life forms of the plants Full size table Species composition similarities compared with folk medicinal plants with TMM and TCM According to the corresponding records about Chinese herbs and Mongolia ...