ReviewEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2021
Candidate Anti-COVID-19 Medicinal Plants from Ethiopia: A Review of Plants Traditionally Used to Treat Viral Diseases.
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- Review of Medicinal Plants Traditionally Used to Treat Diarrhea by the People in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2023Review
- Medicinal Plants in Treating Hepatitis B Among Communities of Central Region of Ethiopia.Hepatic medicine : evidence and research · 2023Article
- Natural products can be used in therapeutic management of COVID-19: Probable mechanistic insights.Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie · 2022Review
- Plant lectins as prospective antiviral biomolecules in the search for COVID-19 eradication strategies.Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie · 2022Review
- Role of ethno-phytomedicine knowledge in healthcare of COVID-19: advances in traditional phytomedicine perspective.Beni-Suef University journal of basic and applied sciences · 2022Review
- Effect of Extraction Solvents on Total Polyphenolic Content and Antioxidant Capacity ofBioMed research international · 2022Article
- Perception Towards COVID-19 Related Symptoms and Traditional Medicine Used for Their Management Among Patients and Their Attendants in Ethiopian Comprehensive Specialized Hospitals: A Cross-Sectional Study.Infection and drug resistance · 2022Article
- Traditional Medicine Practice in the Context of COVID-19 Pandemic: Community Claim in Jimma Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia.Infection and drug resistance · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundEmerging viral infections are among the major global public health concerns. The pandemic COVID-19 is a contagious respiratory and vascular disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). There are no medicines that can treat SARS-CoV-2 except the vaccines. Therefore, searching for plant-originated therapeutics for the treatment of COVID-19 is required. Consequently, reviewing medicinal plants used to treat different viral infections is mandatory. This review article aims to review the ethnobotanical knowledge of medicinal plants traditionally used to treat different viral diseases by the Ethiopian people and suggests those plants as candidates to fight COVID-19.
methodsArticles written in English were searched from online public databases using searching terms like "Traditional Medicine," "Ethnobotanical study," "Active components," "Antiviral activities," and "Ethiopia." Ethnobotanical data were analyzed using the Excel statistical software program.
resultFrom the 46 articles reviewed, a total of 111 plant species were claimed to treat viral infections. Fifty-six (50.4%) of the plant species had reported to have antiviral active components that are promising to treat COVID-19. Lycorine, gingerol shogaol, resveratrol, rhoifolin, oleanolic acid, kaempferol, rosmarinic acid, almond oil, ursolic acid, hederagenin, nigellidine,
conclusionThe Ethiopian traditional knowledge applies a lot of medicinal plants to treat different viral infections. Reports of the chemical components of many of them confirm that they can be promising to fight COVID-19.
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