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Medicinal plants used to induce labour during childbirth in western Uganda
(Elsevier, 2006-06-07)
Traditional medicine usage in rural Ugandan population for day-to-day health care needs is close to 90%. Women and children form the bulk of the people reliant on herbal medicine. This study was undertaken to document how ...
An ethnobotanical documentation of medicinal plants used by local communities around Kibale National Park, A case of Kanyawara, Kanyansowera and Ibura Villages
(Bishop Stuart University, 2016-05)
Currently there is rapid loss of traditional knowledge and practices due to their dependency on oral transformation, impacts of modern cultural transformation, and rapid land degradation. Ethno botanical documentation of ...
Medicinal plants used to induce labour during childbirth in Western Uganda
(Elsevier Ireland Ltd., 2006-07-05)
Traditional medicine usage in rural Ugandan population for day-to-day health care needs is close to 90%.Women and children form the bulk of the people reliant on herbal medicine. This study was undertaken to document how ...
Medicinal plants of Otwal and Ngai Sub Counties in Oyam District, Northern Uganda
(BioMed Central Ltd, 2011)
Background
An ethnobotanical study was carried out in four parishes in the Ngai and Otwal Sub
Counties in Oyam district, Northern Uganda, where insurgency has been prevalent for the
past 20 years. Documenting medicinal ...
Medicinal plants used in the treatment of fungal and bacterial infections in and around Queen Elizabeth Biosphere Reserve, western Uganda
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008)
In Uganda, bacterial and fungal infections are prevalent especially, the sexually transmitted diseases including HIV⁄AIDS. Because of low socio-economic empowerment,traditional beliefs and cultural barriers, the suffering ...
The oxytocic properties of Luffa cylindrica (L.) M. Roem. and Bidens pilosa L., traditionally used medicinal plants from western Uganda
(African Journal of Ecology, 2007)
The usage of medicinal plants in childbirth in Uganda is a long standing tradition. Over 80% of Ugandan women have childbirth at home and herbal remedies are administered to complete the process of childbirth. The herbs ...
PROXIMATE NUTRIENT COMPOSITION OF SOME WILD EDIBLE MEDICINAL PLANTS FROM UGANDA
(African Scholarly Science Trust, 2017-07)
There are high levels of malnutrition especially among children in Africa. In Uganda,
this is compounded by widespread food insecurity. There are various wild edible plant
species in Uganda. However, little research ...
Effectiveness of selected medicinal plants used for management of ticks in cattle in Western Uganda
(Net journals, 2020-11)
Tick management among cattle farmers in Western Uganda has become an outstanding problem based on
the fact that there is increasing resistance to most of the synthetic acaricides. Several herbs have been
mentioned for ...
Traditional plants used for medicinal purposes by local communities around the Northern sector of Kibale National Park, Uganda
(Elsevier, 2021-04-28)
Ethnopharmacological relevance: The study was done to establish medicinal plants used in the treatment
of various diseases by the people in the Northern sector of Kibale National Park in western Uganda. It
was also aimed ...