A REVIEW ON SOME MEDICINAL PLANTS IN NIGERIA

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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.