Semenya Sebua Silas, Maroyi Alfred
Technology Transfer office, Research Administration and Development Department, University of Limpopo, Private Bag X1106, Sovenga 0727, South Africa.
Medicinal Plants and Economic Development (MPED) Research Centre, Department of Botany, University of Fort Hare, Private Bag X1314, Alice 5700, South Africa.
Afr Health Sci. 2018 Dec;18(4):1076-1087. doi: 10.4314/ahs.v18i4.29.
Studies focusing on plants used medicinally to heal and manage rhinitis are very scarce in Africa and elsewhere.
To document plants used by traditional healers (THs) in the treatment and management of rhinitis and related symptoms in the Limpopo Province of South Africa.
Data was gathered using a semi structured interviews with 105 THs in the Limpopo Province, supplemented by field expeditions for plant specimen collection and observation.
63 plant species from 59 genera distributed across 40 botanical families, mainly the (7 spp.) and (6 spp.) were therapeutically used by THs. Overall, 77 herbal recipes (87%=mono and 12.9%=poly), mainly prepared from roots (55.5%) and leaves (19%) were recorded. Most of these recipes were processed via pounding (59.7%) and boiling (20.7%). Oral (44.1%) and nasal (33.7%) was the preferred modes of dispensing remedies by THs. , , and were the most widely used and preferred species for treatment of rhinitis and/or related symptom by all questioned THs.
This study is the first to document plants used traditionally to treat rhinitis in Africa. Therefore, it provides a baseline data on the plants used to heal rhinitis in the Limpopo Province. Finding of this study can be used as apedestal for further investigation in to effective plant-based anti-rhinitis drugs.
在非洲和其他地区，专注于用于治疗和管理鼻炎的药用植物的研究非常稀少。
记录南非林波波省传统治疗师用于治疗和管理鼻炎及相关症状的植物。
通过对林波波省105名传统治疗师进行半结构化访谈收集数据，并辅以实地考察以收集植物标本和进行观察。
传统治疗师治疗性使用了来自40个植物科59属的63种植物，主要是（7种）和（6种）。总体而言，记录了77种草药配方（87%为单一配方，12.9%为复合配方），主要由根（55.5%）和叶（19%）制成。这些配方大多通过捣碎（59.7%）和煮沸（20.7%）进行加工。口服（44.1%）和鼻腔给药（33.7%）是传统治疗师给药的首选方式。、、和是所有接受询问的传统治疗师治疗鼻炎和/或相关症状最广泛使用和首选的物种。
本研究首次记录了非洲传统上用于治疗鼻炎的植物。因此，它提供了林波波省用于治疗鼻炎的植物的基线数据。本研究结果可作为进一步研究有效的植物性抗鼻炎药物的基础。
