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Plants used in traditional medicine in Eastern Tanzania. IV. Angiosperms (Mimosaceae to Papilionaceae)
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Sixty-nine Angiosperms (Mimosaceae to Papilionaceae) are listed, which are used by traditional healers in five regions of Eastern Tanzania; namely, Coast, Dar es Salaam, Kilimanjaro, Morogoro and Tanga.About:
This article is published in Journal of Ethnopharmacology.The article was published on 1990-07-01. It has received 94 citations till now.read more
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Screening Tanzanian medicinal plants for antimalarial activity
TL;DR: In vitro testing revealed that 37% of the investigated plants showed strong antimalarial activity with IC50 values below 10 micrograms/ml, and the four most active plants included Cissampelos mucronata, Maytenus senegalensis, Salacia madagascariensis and Zanthoxylum chalybeum.
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Adulticidal activity of essential oil of Lantana camara leaves against mosquitoes.
TL;DR: Essential oil from the leaves of L. camara possesses adulticidal activity against different mosquito species that could be utilized for development of oil-based insecticide as supplementary to synthetic insecticides.
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Potential antifertility agents from plants: a comprehensive review.
TL;DR: This review provides a comprehensive summary of medicinal flora inhabitating throughout the world regarding their traditional usage by various tribes/ethnic groups for fertility regulation in females and indicates that it is time to increase the number of experimental studies to find out novel potential chemical entities from such a vast array of unexploited plants.
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In vitro anthelmintic activity of root-tuber extract of Flemingia vestita, an indigenous plant in Shillong, India
TL;DR: In vitro treatment of root-tuber-peel extract of Flemingia vestita against helminth parasites showed structural alteration in their tegumental architecture and the vermifugal activity of this plant extract was suggested.
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Ethnopharmacological survey of the Bunda district, Tanzania: Plants used to treat infectious diseases
TL;DR: It was found out that, people in this area commonly use medicinal plants with trust they have built on the curative outcome witnessed, as the first ethnobotanical study in Bunda district recording 52 plants in a small area covered, which is expected to open up more studies to record many useful medicinal plants unfolded.
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Feeding behaviour of vervet monkeys on acacia tortilis and acacia xanthophloea: with special reference to reproductive strategies and tannin production
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TL;DR: Food preferences were determined from data on time spent eating different parts of the Acadia spp.