August 2022

Ethno botanical study of medicinal plants used by Baka people in the treatment of erectile dysfunction

Erectile dysfunction is a disease that is increasingly affecting men. The study examined the traditional use of medicinal plants in the treatment of erectile dysfunction among the Baka people in the eastern region of Cameroon. The study took place over interspersed periods from January 2018 to January 2021 in 9 villages. Forty-four people were interviewed via a questionnaire. One hundred and fifty-nine citations and 71...

Author(s): Natacha NANA AFIONG, Jean Lagarde BETTI, Pascal BILLONG FILS, Armand NDEDY BILE, Farick Oumar NJIMBAM, Stéphanie TIENTCHEU WOMENI, Patrice MVOGO OTTOU and Evariste FONGNZOSSIE FEDOUNG  

August 2022

Piper rivinoides Kunth: A medicinal plant that preserves bioactive chemical substances in its essential oil throughout the seasons

The chemical composition and seasonal variation of essential oils (EO) extracted from the aerial parts of the traditional medicinal plant Piper rivinoides were analyzed using gas chromatography (GC) coupled with mass spectrometry (MS) and GC coupled with flame ionization detector (GC-FID) technique, respectively. The wild plants were collected from two different sites in the Atlantic Forest. The analysis allowed us to...

Author(s): Jéssica Sales Felisberto, Ygor Jessé Ramos,, George Azevedo de Queiroz,  Elsie Franklin Guimarães, André Mesquita Marques and Davyson de Lima Moreira,