TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title Page – – – – – – – i
Certification – – – – – – – ii
Dedication – – – – – – – iii
Acknowledgements – – – – – – iv
Table of contents – – – – – – – vi
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER TWO
2.0 MEDICINAL PLANT
2.1 History of medicinal plant
2.2 Phytochemical present in Medicinal Plants
2.2.1 Alkaloids
2.2.2 Glycosides
2.2.3 Polyphenols
2.2.4 Terpenes
2.2.5 Tannins
2.2.6 Saponins
2.2.7 Steroids
2.2.8 Anthraquinones
2.2.9 Flavonoids
CHAPTER THREE
3.0 TRADITIONAL MEDICINE
3.1 Some herbal medicines use in Nigeria and their applications
3.1.1 Aloe Vera
3.1.2 Garlic (Allium sativum)
3.1.3 Goat Weed (Ageratum conyzoide)
3.1.4 Lemon Grass (Cymbodogoncitratus)
3.1.5 Bitter leaf (Vernoniaamygdalina)
3.1.6 Ginger (Zingiberofficinale)
3.2 Herbal Medicines in Nigeria: Past And Present
3.3 The Pros and Cons of Herbal Medicine
CHAPTER FOUR
4.0 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
4.1 Summary
4.2 Conclusion
References
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Medicinal plants are exhaustible primary bio – resource of drugs for traditional systems of medicine, Modern medicines pharmaceuticals. Forklore medicines and chemical entities (Ncubeet al., 2008). In the past decades, medicinal plants have been used as sources of medicine in virtually all cultures. The use of herbal remedies has expanded globally and is gaining popularity because it has continued to be used not only for primary health care of the poor in developing countries where conventional medicine is predominant in the national health care system.
In the world today, up to 80% of the population uses herbal medicine for primary health care and the global market for herbal medicines currently stand at over US & 60 billion annually and is growing steadily (Tilburt and Kaptchuk, 2008). In Nigeria today, therapy with medicinal plants is of great importance in conjunction with western medicine in the health care system.