https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/files/20192880/STOTEN_D_20_04893R2_COVID_19_accepted_article.pdf

COVID-19: A promising cure for the global panic.

Plectranthus : A review of ethnobotanical uses

http://www.ethnopharmacologia.org/prelude2016/pdf/biblio-ht-28-tabuti.pdf

Traditional herbal drugs of Bulamogi, Uganda: plants, use and administration

http://www.ethnopharmacologia.org/prelude/pdf/bibio-hg-23-giday.pdf

Medicinal plants of the Meinit ethnic group of Ethiopia: an ethnobotanical study.

Nutritional value of leafy vegetables of sub-Saharan Africa and their potential contribution to human health: A review

This study was carried out in Bulamogi, Uganda, with the main objective of determining preferred firewood species, their harvesting and consumption patterns. Data collected through household and key-informants interviews, using open- and close-ended questionnaires and semi-structured interviews, showed that 48 plant species in 36 genera and 20 families are used as firewood. These plants have other uses as herbal medicines and in traditional cultural rites. There is almost total dependence on firewood for domestic cooking and small-scale industries. Firewood is used to fire bricks (55%), distil spirits (26%), cure fish (10%), cook food in restaurants (6%) and to produce charcoal (3%). Firewood for domestic use is collected mainly by women, and largely comprises of dead wood. The distances travelled to firewood collection areas are short and little time is spent. The harvesting of firewood for domestic use may have a lower direct impact on the native flora, than the harvesting of fuelwood for commercial use by small-scale industries and to make charcoal, which requires large amounts of wood that is often green. According to the community response, firewood is abundant but declining. This decline may be related to increasing demands generated by the growing human population of Bulamogi, and growing national need for charcoal. Cultural taboos that have hitherto played an important role in plant conservation appear to be weakening. There is limited trading of firewood in the community.

Firewood use in Bulamogi County, Uganda: species selection, harvesting and consumption patterns

Traditional medicine in Bulamogi county, Uganda: its practitioners, users and viability.

We present here an inventory of the edible plants of Bulamogi, Uganda, and related aspects of exploitation of wild food plants (WFPs) by the local community. The edible plants consist of 105 species distributed in 77 genera and 39 families. Most of the edible plants are herbaceous (70.7%) and are cultivated (49.1%). Some introduced food plants have become naturalised and grow wild. Most of the edible plants yield fruits that are consumed as snacks (41.4%). The major food crops of the Balamogi are consumed locally, while few are traded. The proportion of WFPs is only 32.8% of the edible plants. WFPs are infrequently eaten and their consumption is limited to casual encounters, periods of food shortages and as supplements to major food crops. The main reasons for their neglect are the wide variety of introduced cultivated foods and the increasing difficulty of finding WFPs in the wild. Erosion of traditional knowledge about WFPs has also contributed to their declining use.

K.A. Lye

Papers

Traditional herbal drugs of Bulamogi, Uganda: plants, use and administration

Firewood use in Bulamogi County, Uganda: species selection, harvesting and consumption patterns

Traditional medicine in Bulamogi county, Uganda: its practitioners, users and viability.

The status of wild food plants in Bulamogi County, Uganda.