The burden of neoplastic diseases is a significant global health challenge accounting for
thousands of deaths. In Uganda, about 32,617 cancer cases were reported in 2018 …

Aloe genus plants, distributed in Old World, are widely known and have been used for
centuries as topical and oral therapeutic agents due to their health, beauty, medicinal, and …

Background Aloe vera is commonly used in the primary health care of human beings since
time immemorial. It is an herb widely used in various traditional systems of medicine …

Among natural products, essential oils from aromatic plants have been reported to possess
potent anticancer properties. In this work, we aimed to perform the cytotoxic concentration …

Many natural products could serve as the starting point in the development of modern
medicines because of their numerous biological and pharmacological activities. However …

ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: The Vernonia genus has about one thousand
species and members of the genus are widely used as food and medicine. The aim of this …

This paper reviews progress in establishing the scientific rationale for and safety of
traditional medicine use in Africa. Selected plants were screened for antibacterial …

AIMS OF THE STUDY: Commercially important indigenous medicinal plants of southern
Africa are reviewed in the context of fundamental knowledge about their ethnobotany …

Ethnopharmacological relevance Because about 50% of the Zimbabwean population is at
risk of contracting malaria each year, the majority of people, especially in rural areas, use …

The genus Salvia (sage) belongs to the Lamiaceae and encompasses 900 species
worldwide of which ca. 26 indigenous species are found in southern Africa. Salvia is the …