ArticleHeliyon2020
Ethnobotanical study of plants used by the traditional healers to treat malaria in Mogovolas district, northern Mozambique.
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- A comprehensive review of antimalarial medicinal plants used by Tanzanians.Pharmaceutical biology · 2024Pooled it
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- Between their own and the western: the experience of Emberá communities in Chocó with Malaria.Revista peruana de medicina experimental y salud publica · 2025Article
- Ethnobotanical Study of Medicinal Herbs Used by the Luguru Tribe Against Various Human Ailments in Morogoro Rural District, Tanzania.TheScientificWorldJournal · 2025Article
- Beliefs and socio-cultural perspectives on hantavirus in a rural community in Panama: An ethnonursing study.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Indigenous Knowledge and Quantitative Analysis of Medicinal Plants Used to Remedy Respiratory Tract Disorders in Mid-Western Tanzania.BioMed research international · 2024Article
- Ethnopharmacology, Antimicrobial Potency, and Phytochemistry of AfricanAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- An updated checklist of Mozambique's vascular plants.PhytoKeys · 2022Article
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Abstract
introductionMalaria is an important parasitic disease that affects mostly the African continent. Traditional medicine is very important in Mozambique and traditional healers play a key role in the primary health care services, particularly in rural areas. We aim to report the results of an ethnobotanical survey undertaken in Mogovolas district, northern region of Mozambique. We recorded and identified the medicinal plants used by traditional healers for treatment of malaria, as well as the mode of preparation and administration.
methodsThe study was conducted in 14 villages from Mogovolas between June and August 2015. Sixteen traditional healers were interviewed using semi-structured questionnaires. Under their guidance, we collected medicinal plants and prepared herbarium specimens that were sent and kept at Eduardo Mondlane University Herbarium for scientific identification. We searched for information on the
resultsTraditional healers from Mogovolas district reported the use of 37 plants to treat malaria, belonging to 22 families. The most used species are
conclusionThe ethnobotanical data resulted from this study can be the starting point for further chemical and pharmacological studies aiming to identify medicinal species with antimalarial activity, thus, open the insights for the discovery of new antimalarial substances, as well as better integration of the traditional medicine into the national health systems, particularly in developing countries, as the health system coverage is limited.
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