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A small thorny tree found all over Africa in warm temperate and tropical areas, as well as in Central America, Australia, southern Asia and Hawaii. ..., utensils (mortars, drums, bee-hives), medicine (bark, roots), veterinary medicine (leaves), bee forage, ornamental, mulch, soil conservation, nitrogen fixati ...

Widespread in tropical Africa from Eritrea and Ethiopia to South Africa, occurring in semi-arid sa Poles, medicine (bark, leaves, smoke from burning plant parts), veterinary medicine (bark), bee forage, fibre (inner bark for ropes), incense (root), soap subs ...

...aves, bark and roots), fodder (leaves and fruit), toothbrushes, veterinary medicine, seeds used as beads in traditional garments. ...small fruit scarlet and dotted with glands. It is used for carving and for medicine. ...

...eaves of ''A. bunius'' are also commonly applied in traditional veterinary medicine for sheep and goats. ''A. neurocarpum'' Miq. and ''A. tetrandrum'' Blume pl ...ises about 200 species distributed in the Old World tropics, but mainly in tropical Asia. Some authors separate the genus from the ''Euphorbiaceae'' and place ...

PROTA 11 (1), 2008. ''Plant resources of tropical Africa''. vol. 11 (1). ''Medicinal plants'', vol. 1. ed. by G.H. Schmelzer PROTA 11 (2), 2013. ''Plant resources of tropical Africa''. vol. 11 (2). ''Medicinal plants'', vol. 2. ed. by G.H. Schmelzer ...

...ted all over the world; cv. group Aggregatum (shallot) predominates in the tropical lowland of South-East Asia, but cv. group Common Onion is grown in the Phil Onion plays an important role in traditional medicine; it is used as diuretic and suppresses the blood sugar level and platelet a ...

''Seddera'' comprises 31 species and occurs in tropical Africa, Madagascar, the Arabian Peninsula and neighbouring islands and sout ...ng South Africa. In South Africa roots of the plant are used in veterinary medicine for the treatment of fractures. ...

...s drunk to cure diarrhoea. In Malawi ''Aloe nuttii'' is used in veterinary medicine to prevent Newcastle disease in chickens, for deworming and to ease parturi ...: Mathias, E., Rangnekar, D.V. & McCorkle, C.M. (Editors). Ethnoveterinary medicine: alternatives for livestock development. Proceedings of an International Co ...

In African traditional medicine an infusion of the root is drunk as a laxative and a decoction of the root In traditional veterinary medicine the leaf sap forms part of preparations given to cattle with diarrhoea or t ...

* Burkill, H.M., 1995. The useful plants of West Tropical Africa. 2nd Edition. Volume 3, Families J–L. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Ri ..., 1997. Prospects for plant anthelmintics in tropical veterinary medicine. Veterinary Research Communications 21(3): 213–228. ...

...s laxative. In Ethiopia ''Commicarpus plumbagineus'' is used in veterinary medicine to treat skin diseases of cattle. In Kenya an infusion of the whole plant i * Burkill, H.M., 1997. The useful plants of West Tropical Africa. 2nd Edition. Volume 4, Families M–R. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Ri ...

...used by Zulu people to cure stomach-ache. Leaves and fruits are used as a medicine for chickenpox in western Kenya. Mature fruits are marketed in South Africa ...rbit species, interest in ''Lagenaria sphaerica'' appears to be limited to tropical countries. The main interest lies in its potential as a source of resistanc ...

..." from the leaves of this Liliaceae with anthracene heterosides is used in medicine as "laxative and purgative" (PARIS and DILLEMAN, 1960; PARIS and MOYSE, 196 ...l. Intensive studies are underway on its secondary metabolites, useful for medicine. This species had been used as drug already in the antiquity. It had been p ...

...so used as food wrappers. The leaves are applied externally in traditional medicine in West Africa to treat yaws, wounds and conjunctivitis, The pulped bark is ...s approximately 320 species, about 200 of them in tropical America, 120 in tropical Asia and only 6 in Africa. The African species were classified in the gener ...

...the inspissated leaf juice is used as a purgative in human and veterinary medicine and fresh juice is applied in cases of ophthalmia and syphilis. The flower *Reynolds, G.W., 1966. The Aloes of Tropical Africa and Madagascar. The Trustees the Aloe Book Fund, Swaziland. 537 pp. ...

...ne. In the same region, ''Cuscuta kilimanjari'' also enters into a complex medicine to prevent or treat agalactia. ...d for similar purposes as Cuscuta australis R.Br., a widespread species in tropical Africa. The medicinal uses of this species are described in a separate arti ...

In veterinary medicine, leaf sap is given to facilitate parturition. A decoction of the leaves is ''[[Erythrococca menyharthii]]'' (Pax) Prain occurs in East and southern tropical Africa. The roots are ground and eaten with honey against cough. Leaf sap i ...

...lant parts are administered to treat tuberculosis and cough. In veterinary medicine, bark decoctions are used as anthelmintic in cattle and to treat eye diseas ''Terminalia'' is a pantropical genus of about 200 species. In tropical mainland Africa about 30 species occur naturally, in Madagascar about 35. ...

...inates from tropical and subtropical America, but is widely naturalized in tropical Africa and Indonesia. In Africa it occurs from Senegal east to DR Congo and ...recent introduction in Africa, the plant has found a place in traditional medicine. In Benin and Nigeria a decoction of fresh leafy twigs is taken as an anthe ...

''Hibiscus diversifolius'' is widespread in the tropical African continent at higher altitudes. In Madagascar it occurs wild, while ...is and chronic coughing, especially to children. In traditional veterinary medicine in South Africa the roots are crushed and boiled in water and given to drin ...