Pålsson K, Jaenson T G
Department of Zoology, Uppsala University, Sweden.
Acta Trop. 1999 Jan 15;72(1):39-52. doi: 10.1016/s0001-706x(98)00083-7.
By standardized interviews of people in 23 rural villages, in the Oio region of Guinea Bissau, we collected data on which plant species and plant derived products or methods people use to reduce mosquito biting activity. The following plants were used to reduce numbers of mosquitoes indoors at night: fresh or smouldering Hyptis suaveolens Poit. (Lamiaceae), smoke of the bark of Daniellia oliveri Rolfe (Caesalpiniaceae), smoke of the infructescence of Elaeis guineensis Jacq. (Arecaceae), smoke of the seed capsules of Parkia biglobosa (Jacq.) Benth. (Mimosaceae), smoke of the leaves of Azadirachta indica A.Juss. (Meliaceae) and Eucalyptus sp. (Myrtaceae), fresh Ocimum canum Sims (Lamiaceae), and fresh Senna occidentalis (L.) Link (Caesalpiniaceae). In two field experiments we estimated the 'repellent activity' of certain of these plants and compared their efficacies with those of two commercially available mosquito repellents, i.e. 'positive' controls. In the first experiment we tested: smouldering H. suaveolens (85.4% repellency); fresh H. suaveolens (73.2%); burning of the bark of D. oliveri (74.7%); and smoke of the leaves of Eucalyptus (72.2%). In the second experiment we tested: smouldering H. suaveolens (83.6% repellency); fresh H. suaveolens (66.5%); burning of the bark of D. oliveri (77.9%); smoke of the leaves of A. indica (76.0%); smoke of the infructescence of E. guineensis (69.0%); fresh O. canum (63.6%); and fresh S. occidentalis; (29.4%). All the products tested, except S. occidentalis were significantly more effective than the negative control.
通过对几内亚比绍奥约地区23个乡村的人们进行标准化访谈，我们收集了关于人们使用哪些植物物种、植物衍生产品或方法来减少蚊子叮咬活动的数据。以下植物被用于减少夜间室内蚊子数量：新鲜的或闷烧的香蜂草（唇形科）、奥利弗猴面包树（苏木科）树皮的烟雾、油棕（棕榈科）果序的烟雾、大叶相思（含羞草科）种荚的烟雾、印楝（楝科）叶和桉属植物（桃金娘科）叶的烟雾、新鲜的犬齿罗勒（唇形科）以及新鲜的西番莲（苏木科）。在两项野外实验中，我们评估了其中某些植物的“驱蚊活性”，并将它们的功效与两种市售驱蚊剂（即“阳性”对照）进行比较。在第一个实验中，我们测试了：闷烧的香蜂草（驱蚊率85.4%）；新鲜的香蜂草（73.2%）；奥利弗猴面包树树皮燃烧（74.7%）；以及桉树叶的烟雾（72.2%）。在第二个实验中，我们测试了：闷烧的香蜂草（驱蚊率83.6%）；新鲜的香蜂草（66.5%）；奥利弗猴面包树树皮燃烧（77.9%）；印楝叶的烟雾（76.0%）；油棕果序的烟雾（69.0%）；新鲜的犬齿罗勒（63.6%）；以及新鲜的西番莲（29.4%）。除西番莲外，所有测试产品的效果均显著优于阴性对照。
