ReviewAfrican journal of traditional, complementary, and alternative medicines : AJTCAM2016
TREATMENT OF DIARRHOEA USING TRADITIONAL MEDICINES: CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH IN SOUTH AFRICA AND ZIMBABWE.
Review in African journal of traditional, complementary, and alternative medicines : AJTCAM, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 41 citations in OpenAlex.
- Treatment-seeking practices of caregivers for children aged less than five years old with diarrhoea in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of global health · 2025Pooled it
- Targeting Microorganisms in Lignocellulosic Biomass to Produce Biogas and Ensure Sanitation and Hygiene.Microorganisms · 2026Review
- A Review on Phytochemistry, Ethnopharmacology, and Antiparasitic Potential ofPharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Antibiotic resistance patterns of Staphylococcus aureus and Enterobacteriaceae isolated from street foods in selected towns of Ethiopia.BMC infectious diseases · 2024Article
- A scoping review on efficacy and safety of medicinal plants used for the treatment of diarrhea in sub-Saharan Africa.Tropical medicine and health · 2024Article
- Cholera Outbreaks in Zimbabwe: An In-Depth Analysis of Drivers, Constraints and Reimagining the Use of Medicinal Plants.Journal of tropical medicine · 2024Review
- New Coagulant Proteases for Cheesemaking from Leaves and Latex of the Spontaneous PlantFoods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Medicinal Uses of the Fabaceae Family in Zimbabwe: A Review.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Garcinia buchananii stem bark extract and its bioactive constituents manniflavanone, GB-2 and buchananiflavanone attenuate intestinal inhibitory neuromuscular transmission.Journal of smooth muscle research = Nihon Heikatsukin Gakkai kikanshi · 2023Article
- Ethnobotany, Ethnopharmacology, and Phytochemistry of Medicinal Plants Used for Treating Human Diarrheal Cases in Rwanda: A Review.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Antidiarrheal Effect of 80% Methanol Extract and Fractions ofEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2021Article
- Knowledge, attitudes and practices of health care professionals towards adverse drug reaction reporting in public sector primary health care facilities in a South African district.European journal of clinical pharmacology · 2020Article
- Review of Ethnomedicinal, Phytochemical and Pharmacological Properties ofMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundGastrointestinal disorders, diarrhoea in particular remain a major concern in South Africa and Zimbabwe resulting in high mortality rates when left untreated. This investigation was aimed at documenting herbal medicines used in the treatment of diarrhoea in South Africa and Zimbabwe. MATERIALS AND
methodsA review of literature on plant species used as remedies for diarrhoea in South Africa and Zimbabwe was undertaken by the use of different electronic databases such as Google Scholar, ScienceDirect, Scopus as well as library searches at the University of Fort Hare, South Africa and the National Herbarium of Zimbabwe (SRGH) in Harare, Zimbabwe.
resultsThis study reported ten plant species most widely used to treat diarrhoea in South Africa and Zimbabwe. Of the lot,
conclusionThe documented antidiarrhoeal activities of this repository of selected plant species against diarrhoea causing agents such as rotavirus,
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.