Free radicals are highly reactive molecules generated during oxidation reactions which in
turn initiate chain reactions resulting to cellular damage. There is substantial evidence …

Extracts from medicinal plants, many of which have been used for centuries, are increasingly
tested in models of hepatotoxicity. One of the most popular models to evaluate the …

In this chapter, the traditional use, the phytochemical composition, and the pharmacological
activities of African medicinal plants displaying antibacterial effects were reported. We have …

Natural products are a great wellspring of biodiversity for finding novel antivirals, exposing
new interactions between structure and operation and creating successful defensive or …

Abstract Context: The use of Aframomum melegueta K. Schum.(Zingiberaceae) fruit for
treatment of diabetes has recently been established in Nigeria. However, compounds …

OBJECTIVES Spices are increasingly finding other useful roles in healthcare aside their
primary use as organoleptic enhancers in culinary. Several herbs and spices are currently …

Cadmium is a toxic metal and poses a high environmental risk to animals and humans,
alike. It is thus pertinent to search for medicinal plants in protecting against cadmium toxicity …

African ethnomedicine is essentially based on the traditional use of vegetal extracts. Since
these natural drugs have shown health giving properties, in the present study we increased …

Objective The present study is aimed at evaluating the protective effects of oils from Zingiber
officinale (ginger) and Curcuma longa (turmeric) on acute ethanol-induced fatty liver in male …

Aframomum melegueta is a commonly used African spice. Through a hepatoprotective
bioassay-guided isolation, the chloroform fraction of A. melegueta seeds yielded one new …