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ArticleAfrican health sciences2018

Ethnobotanical study of curative plants used by traditional healers to treat rhinitis in the Limpopo Province, South Africa.

Sebua Silas Semenya, Alfred Maroyi

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Article in African health sciences, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Sebua Silas SemenyaTechnology Transfer office, Research Administration and Development Department, University of Limpopo, Private Bag X1106, Sovenga 0727, South Africa.
Alfred MaroyiMedicinal Plants and Economic Development (MPED) Research Centre, Department of Botany, University of Fort Hare, Private Bag X1314, Alice 5700, South Africa.

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Abstract

backgroundStudies focusing on plants used medicinally to heal and manage rhinitis are very scarce in Africa and elsewhere.

objectivesTo document plants used by traditional healers (THs) in the treatment and management of rhinitis and related symptoms in the Limpopo Province of South Africa.

methodsData was gathered using a semi structured interviews with 105 THs in the Limpopo Province, supplemented by field expeditions for plant specimen collection and observation.

results63 plant species from 59 genera distributed across 40 botanical families, mainly the

conclusionThis study is the first to document plants used traditionally to treat rhinitis in Africa. Therefore, it provides a baseline data on the plants used to heal rhinitis in the Limpopo Province. Finding of this study can be used as apedestal for further investigation in to effective plant-based anti-rhinitis drugs.

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Plants, MedicinalDose-Response Relationship, DrugDrug Administration RoutesEthnobotanyHumansInterviews as TopicMedicine, African TraditionalPhytotherapyPlant PreparationsPlant StructuresRhinitisSouth AfricaPlant PreparationsBapediLimpoporhinitistraditional healers

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PMCPMC6354866

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