James M. Mbaria

TL;DR: The most commonly used plant parts were fresh or dried leaves and stem barks, with the exception being topical application especially for breast cancer and skin sarcomas as mentioned in this paper. But the primary mode of administration was oral.

TL;DR: The ethnomedicinal use of plant species was documented in the study area for treatment of both human and veterinary diseases and the local population has high ethnobotanical knowledge and has adopted sound management conservation practices.

TL;DR: It is concluded that traditional health practice in Loitoktok depend largely on naturally growing plants and that the study area has a potential for bio-prospecting of crude drugs from plants due to the large number of medicinal plants cited.

TL;DR: This study documents medicinal plants that are traditionally used by the Msambweni community of Kenyan South Coast to treat malaria, where the disease is endemic, as a basis for selection of plants for further pharmacological, toxicological and phytochemical studies in developing new plant based antimalarial drugs.

TL;DR: In this paper, traditional livestock healers from Samburu and Turkana communities in the Central Province of Kenya were identified and recruited for participation in a study where three herbal anthelmintic remedies, viz. Myrsine africana, Albizia antihelmintica and Hilderbrantia sepalosa, were administered in the traditional way by the healers and their efficacy determined using percent fecal egg count reduction (percent FECR) test.