Advanced Research on African Medicinal Plants
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Phytochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2024) | Viewed by 8451
Special Issue Editors
Interests: phytochemistry; natural products chemistry; green nanotechnology; traditional medicine
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: food science and technology; food microbiology; ethnobotany and food biotechnology; indigenous knowledge system
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The African continent continues to afford an exciting opportunity to treat human pathologies. The potential economic and health benefits of developing new drugs from African medicinal plants and preserving and promoting traditional knowledge and practices are of great importance. In continuation of raising international importance of Traditional African Medicine (TAM) as the primary source of drug discovery, we invite colleagues from different disciplines related to African medicine to contribute their original research papers to this Special Issue.
We had the first volume of the Special Issue last year and published 12 articles representing the different fields of study on traditional medicines and medicinal plants and their value-added products from the African continent. The new Special Issue volume will accept research articles/reviews from all African colleagues and/or focusing on any medicinal plants originating from Africa.
In this Special Issue, we would like to invite different research groups to submit their research manuscripts, systematic reviews, scoping reviews, mini-reviews, opinions, notes, field manuals, and short communications that focus on traditional medicinal records, databases, access benefits sharing and regulatory procedures, chemistry, toxicity, ethnopharmacology, and biological activity of African medicinal plants and traditional medicine.
Prof. Dr. Ahmed Hussein
Prof. Ahmad Cheikhyouseef
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- African continents
- antimicrobial activity
- traditional medicine documentation
- toxicity of traditional medicine
- in vivo biological activities
- in vitro biological activities
- indigenous knowledge system
- medicinal plants, phytochemical investigation
- structure elucidation
- discovery of new bioactive compounds
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