Respiratory diseases have in the recent past become a health concern globally. More than
523 million cases of coronavirus disease (COVID19), a recent respiratory diseases have …

Croton macrostachyus is widely used as herbal medicine by the indigenous people of
tropical Africa. The potential of C. macrostachyus as herbal medicine, the phytochemistry …

Background The influence of socio-demographic variables was widely explored to evaluate
their impact on indigenous and local ethnobotanical knowledge. However, the studies …

Studies in rural communities are important to maintain popular knowledge between
generations, as well as to identify new species for pharmaceutical production. Thus, the …

In ethnopharmacological research, many field assessment tools exist. Yet, these miss that
critical point of how to really determine which species merit the costly lab studies, eg …

Background Poor access to healthcare in rural communities causes many people to seek
herbalists who use medicinal plants for the treatment of various disease conditions. Most …

Traditional medicinal plants used by local Oromo people of Tulo District in west Hararghe,
Ethiopia, were investigated before people's medicinal knowledge vanishes. Data on …

Introduction There is widespread use of Aloe species in traditional healing practices in East
Africa for a variety of diseases. Unfortunately, there is a tendency of mistakenly referring to …

CareVid, is a multi-herbal product that is used in southwestern parts of Kenya as an immune
booster and health tonic for the treatment and management of infections. Its use has been …

This study investigated the antifungal activities of single and combined extracts of
traditionally used Tanzanian medicinal plants against the selected fungal pathogens. Plants …