African medecinal plants

Artémisia Evidence-Based Complementary and alternative medecine evidences towards Validating Efficacy and Safety of african traditional medecine traditional medecine in africa: An Appraisal of some Potent African medecinal plant using medicinal plants as a main component of the African Traditional healthcare systeme may be the oldest and of all therapeutic systems. In Africa, traditional healers prescribing medicinal plants are easily accessible and affordable health resource available to the local community and at times the only therapy that subsists. Nonetheless, there is still a paucity of updated comprehensive compilation of promising medicinal plants from the African continent. The actual focus of the present review is to show an overview of some promising medicinal plants from the African biodiversity which have short- as well as long-term potential to be developed as future phytopharmaceuticals to treat and manage many infectious and chronic conditions. In this endeavour, key scientific databases have been probed to investigate trends in the rapidly increasing number of scientific publications on African traditional medicinal plants. Within the framework of enhancing the significance of Traditional African plants , aspects such as traditional use, phytochemical profile, in vitro, in vivo, and clinical studies and also future challenges pertaining to the use of these plants have been explored.