Current trends of Traditional Herbal Medicine Practice in Kenya: A review
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...The use of the same plant species to treat totally different conditions could be attributed to the fact that traditional knowledge is a closely guarded secret [33]....
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...Herbal plants which appear to show evidence of clinical activity are then selected and screened [10]....
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...However, most of those herbal plants used by the Kenyan 42 tribes largely remain undocumented [10]....
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...The documentation of these traditional medicine and healing methods which have been used for thousands of years will therefore provide an important database for future research and potential development of new drugs, just like in Asia [10,17-19]....
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...The popularity of herbal medicine has also introduced several other challenges related to the practice, including the emergence of bogus herbalists out to swindle unsuspecting patients [10]....
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...The trend is quite worrying and provides evidence on how fast the knowledge is disappearing; especially considering that it is orally transmitted [10]....
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...Kenya is not an exception; although there exist other forms of heath care providers such as the government hospitals, clinics, private and faith-based health facilities, the rural population relies on traditional medicine in innumerable ways for their health care needs [4]....
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...For example the National Museums of Kenya maintains the Kenya Resource Center for Indigenous Knowledge (KENRIK) database, which provides basic information on several Kenyan medicinal plants [96]....
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