Cameroonian medicinal plants: a bioactivity versus ethnobotanical survey and chemotaxonomic classification.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In Cameroon herbs are traditionally used to meet health care needs and plans are on the way to integrate traditional medicine in the health care system, even though the plans have not been put into action yet. The country however has a rich biodiversity, with ~8,620 plant species, some of which are commonly used in the treatment of several microbial infections and a range of diseases (malaria, trypanosomiasis, leishmaniasis, diabetes and tuberculosis).

Methods

Our survey consisted in collecting published data from the literature sources, mainly from PhD theses in Cameroonian university libraries and also using the author queries in major natural product and medicinal chemistry journals. The collected data includes plant sources, uses of plant material in tradition

SUBMITTER: Ntie-Kang F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3703288 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature