Countrywide Survey of Plants Used for Liver Disease Management by Traditional Healers in Burkina Faso.

ABSTRACT: Liver disease is highly prevalent in Africa, especially in the western African country Burkina Faso, due to the presence of multiple biological and chemical aggressors of the liver. Furthermore, diagnosis and appropriate care for liver disease are uneven and usually insufficient. This drives local communities to turn to folk medicine based on medicinal plants from healers. Small scale, ethnopharmacological studies on reputed hepatoprotective plants have been carried out in defined regions worldwide, but so far, no study has been carried out on a countrywide scale. Therefore, we have explored traditional healers' practices in all thirteen regions of Burkina Faso. We interviewed 575 healers and we compiled a database with 2,006 plant entries. Here, we report results on liver nosology, liver

SUBMITTER: Tibiri A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7883685 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature