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| Title: | Treating fibromyoma with herbal medicines in South Cameroon |
| Authors: | Noumi, Emmanuel |
| Keywords: | Ethnomedicine
Medical plants
Fibromyoma
Cameroon |
| Issue Date: | Oct-2010 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| IPC Code: | Int. Cl.8: A61K36/00, A61P15/00, A61P29/00, A61P35/00 |
| Abstract: | The
study presents the conclusions of a survey, carried out to determine how, by
means of plant recipes, the traditional healers of the South
Cameroon treat uterine fibromyoma. Fibromyoma causes primary or secondary
level infertility, but not sterility. The population concerned was those of the
Ambam Division, South Cameroon. The study
listed and studied 46 plant species belonging to 32 families, all used as
traditional herbal medicines in the treatment of fibromyoma. And before that,
the local traditional healers and the women treated or under treatment were
submitted to questionnaires to be filled. During laboratory work, many of the
plant species identified in the field, and their therapeutic uses, were compared
with the published works on ethnomedicine in Cameroon and may proved to be new.
It was also acknowledged that many others, whose effectiveness in the treatment
of fibromyoma was being well recognised, were also used for the same purpose in
others regions of Cameroon.
In the sample retained within the
framework of the study, 16.5% of the women were effectively healed. |
| Page(s): | 736-741 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0975-1068 (Online); 0972-5938 (Print) |
| Source: | IJTK Vol.09(4) [October 2010]
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