The Amazon Region and Other Parts of South America and Africa with 630 Genera and Species with the Being able to Reach: A Part from the Book Chapter: Antiplasmodial Potentials and GC-MS Analysis of Bioactive Compounds in Methanol and Ethanol Leaf Extracts of Daniellia oliveri

the traditional treatments

D. oliveri is found predominantly in both temperate and tropical regions of the world, the Amazon region and other parts of South America and Africa with 630 genera and species with the being able to reach a height of 100 feet and trunk diameter of 4 feet. D. oliveri is an indigenous African tree found extensively in Benin, Cameroon, Gambia and Nigeria. For more than 400 years, studies have shown that the oleoresin chemical component consisting of sesquiterpene hydrocarbons with caryophyllene, a non-volatile resinous substances and small quantities of acid produced by D. oliveri have been used as medicine by indigenous people. The oleoresin is traditionally used as an anti-inflammatory agent and in the treatment of a variety of genito-urinary tract diseases, scrotal elephantiasis, dysentery, ring worms, syphilis, typhoid fever, eye sore, ear ache and skin ailments with the leaves sometimes used singly or in combination with other plant parts for the traditional treatments of diabetes, fever, boil, back ache and yellow fever.

Author(s) Details:

Muhammed Muazu ,
Pharmacology Laboratory, College of Health Sciences, Kogi State University, Anyigba, Nigeria.

Abdulsalami Mohammed Sani,
Department of Biotechnology, Nigerian Defence Academy, PMB 2109, Kaduna, Nigeria.

Karderam Bukar Dikwa,
Department of Biological Sciences, Nigerian Defence Academy Kaduna, Nigeria.

Deborah Madi Dibal,
Department of Biological Sciences, Nigerian Defence Academy Kaduna, Nigeria.

Kokori Bajeh Tijani,
Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Basic Clinical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Kogi State University, Anyigba, Nigeria.

Junaidu Yahaya,
Department of Medical Biochemistry, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Kogi State University, Anyigba, Nigeria.

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