106 | Traditional medicine
Box 5.2Recent screens of African plant species used in traditional
medical practice for antimalarial/antiplasmodial activity
Kenya
Gathwira et al. In vitro antiplasmodial and in vivoantimalarial
activity of some plants used traditionally for the treatment for
malaria by the Meru community in Kenya. J Natural Med
2007; 61 :261–8.
South Africa
Clarkson et al. In vitroantiplasmodial activity of medicinal plants
native to or naturalised in South Africa. J Ethnopharmacol
2004; 92 :177–91.
Pillay et al. Investigating South African plants as a source of new anti-
malarial drugs. J Ethnopharmacol 2008; 119 :438–54.
Nundkumar, Ojewale. Studies on the antiplasmodial properties of
some South African medicinal plants used as antimalarial remedies
in Zulu folk medicine. Methods and Findings in Experimental and
Clinical Pharmacology2002; 24 :397–401.
Prozesky et al. In vitroantiplasmodial activity of ethnobotanically
selected South African plants. J Ethnopharmacol 2001; 76 :
239–45.
Tanzania
Gessler et al. Screening Tanzanian medicinal plants for antimalarial
activity. Acta Tropica1994; 56 :65–77.
Weenen et al. Antimalarial activity of Tanzanian medicinal plants.
Planta Medica1990; 56 :369.
Uganda
Kaatura et al. Antiplasmodial activity of extracts of selected medic-
inal plants used by local communities in Western Uganda for the
treatment of malaria. African J Ecol2007; 45 :94–8.
West Africa
Soh, Benoit-Vical. Are West African plants a source of future anti-
malarial drugs? J Ethnopharmacol 2007; 114 :130–40.
Zimbabwe
Kraft et al. In vitroantiplasmodial evaluation of medicinal plants
from Zimbabwe. Phytotherapy Research2003; 17 :123–8.