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Background: Despite tremendous efforts made to curb malaria morbidity and mortality, malaria control has slowed down due to resistance to all currently used insecticides by mosquitoes, and their negative effect on the non-target organisms and the ecosystem. Thus, there is an urgent need to search and develop new plant-based malaria vector control s...
Ethnopharmacological relevance:
Psydrax schimperianus (A. Rich.) Bridson. roots are used for the treatment of diarrhea in West Arsi zone, Ethiopia.
Aim of the study:
This study aimed to investigate the in vivo antidiarrheal activity of crude extract and coumarins isolated from the roots of Psydrax schimperianus to provide a pharmacological basis...
In many developing countries, farmers and pastoralists still rely on their indigenous knowledge, practices and locally available plants to control nematode parasitic infections, both in livestock and humans. The overall aim of my thesis was to undertake bioassay-guided phyto-chemical study of extracts and their constituents from Ethiopian anti-para...
The essential oils of fresh aerial parts of Satureja abyssinica (Benth.) Briq. ssp. abyssinica and Satureja paradoxa (Vatke) Engl. collected in Ethiopia were analyzed by gas chromatography (GC/FID) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC/MS). The results of the analyses indicated that the components of the two oils are similar qualitatively wi...
