Medicinal plants used to treat malaria in Madagascar.
Rasoanaivo P, Petitjean A, Ratsimamanga-Urverg S, Rakoto-Ratsimamanga A.
Institut Malgache de Recherches Appliquées, Antananarivo, Madagascar.
Two-hundred thirty-nine Madagascan medicinal plants have been either retrieved from computerized ethnobotany information or identified in our own ethnomedicine work as having antimalarial properties. Such a high rate percent of plants compared to those used empirically to treat other diseases reflects the importance and the complication of this major tropical disease in Madagascar.
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PMID: 1434686 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]