Medicinal & Aromatic Plants
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ISSN: 2167-0412
+44 1300 500008
ISSN: 2167-0412
+44 1300 500008
Mubarak Siddig Hamad
Traditional Medicine Institute, National Center for Research,
Khartoum
Sudan
Review Article
A Review on the Taxonomy, Ethnobotany, Phytochemistry and
Pharmacology of Guriea senegalensis J.F.Gmel. (Combretaceae)
Author(s): Mubarak Siddig Hamad, Hassan Elsafi, Ahmed Saeed, Eltayeb Fadul and Reem Hassan AhmedMubarak Siddig Hamad, Hassan Elsafi, Ahmed Saeed, Eltayeb Fadul and Reem Hassan Ahmed
Guiera senegalesis (G. senegalensis) Family Combretaceae is shrubs or trees widely distributed in west and central Africa. In traditional medicine G. senegalensis used to treat malaria, dysentery and/or diarrhea, cough and/ cold, abdominal pains, leprosy, hypotension and hypertension, diabetes, snakebites eczema, impotence, epilepsy, breast cancer, depressant and jaundice. Phytochemical screening investigated by scientists showed the presence of alkaloids, flavonoids, tannin, saponin, terpinoids/sterols and cardionolics mainly in leaves and roots of the plant. The biological activities showed positive results as anti-tuberculosis, anti-diarrhoeal, anti-plasmodia, analgesic and devoid of anti-inflammatory, antifungal, antioxidant anti-lipid peroxidation activity, anti-malaria and with low toxicity, antifungal, anti-acetylcholinesterase, antilipid peroxidation in rat’s brain homog.. View More»
DOI:
10.4172/2167-0412.1000296