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Pharmacognosy 2018
American Journal of Ethnomedicine
ISSN: 2348-9502
Page 104
April 16-17, 2018
Amsterdam, Netherlands
6
th
Edition of International Conference on
Pharmacognosy and
Medicinal Plants
S
almonella
spp. is pathogenic bacteria responsible for typhoid
and paratyphoid fevers. Herbalists are one of the main
users of primary health care for people in developing countries.
They contribute to the conservation of plants and endogenous
knowledge. The aim of this study was to establish the potential of
the Benin flora for the treatment of salmonellosis. It was carried
out thanks to an ethnopharmacological study of medicinal plants
sold. It was conducted with 90 herbalists located in 30 markets in
Southern Benin. Themethod used isTriplet Purchase of Medicinal
Recipes. This technique consisted in visiting the same herbalist
three times in a weekly interval. These visits allowed us to buy
plants suspected of treating a patient suffering from typhoid
fever. At each visit, the herbalist was told that his treatment was
effective but that the treatment was very difficult for the patient.
The technique then allowed to check the concordance in the
recipes proposed by these herbalists during the three visits and
to identify the most cited plants in its recipes. In this study, 57
plant species sold by herbalists were identified.
Senna siamea
(8.32%),
Phyllantus amarus
(4.16%),
Uvaria chamae
(3.56%),
Acacia siberiana
(2.97%),
Heterotis rotundifolia
(2.97%),
Crateva
adansonii
(2.77%),
Citrus aurantiifolia
(2.77%),
Acanthospermum
hispidum
(2.57%)
, Corchorus olitorius
(2.57%) were the most
sold. Waiting to go through further biological explorations of
their activities, extracts from these plants could be a source of
Improved Traditional Medicines for the treatment of typhoid fever.
legba.boris5@gmail.comUse of Southern Benin plants in the treatment of typhoid fever:
role of herbalists
Dougnon V
1
, Legba B
1
, Yadouléton A
2
, Agbankpe J
1
, Koudokpon H
1
, Hounmanou
G
1
, Bankolé H S
1
, Dougnon J
1
and
Baba-Moussa L
3
1
Research Unit of Applied Microbiology and Pharmacology of Natural Substances, Benin
2
Universitté de Parakou, Benin
3
Laboratory of Biology and Molecular Typing in Microbiology, Benin
Am J Ethnomed 2018, Volume 5
DOI: 10.21767/2348-9502-C1-006