TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - Phytochemical screening of some medicinal plants used in Ivory Coast country Krobou (Agboville, Ivory Coast)
JO  - Sciences and nature
A1  - N'Guessan, Koffi
A1  - Kadja, Beugré
A1  - Zirihi, Guédé N.
A1  - Traoré, Dossahoua
A1  - Aké-Assi, Laurent
SP  - 1
EP  - 15
VL  - 6
IS  - 1
N2  - An ethnomedicinal study carried out at Krobou, an ethnic group in the Department of Agboville (Côte-d'Ivoire) showed that 27 traditional doctors use 18 ivorian plants species to cure people to different pathologies. Various parts of the plant (barks of root and stem, sheets, fruits, seeds and tubers) are used to prepare the medicamentous receipts. These receipts which are generally monospecific, require different preparation modes (decoction, expression, infusion, soaking, kneading, pounding, crushing, softening, rousting and trituration). We note several administration modes of those medicines : washing, application on the skin, painting, steam bath, drinking, oral, nasal, vaginal instillations and purges. The tri phytochemical tests of three extracts (etheric, methanolic and aqueous) revealed that the different drugs contain sterols, polyterpenes, polyphenols, flavonoids, tannins, alkaloids and saponosides which give these medicines several healing properties.       Keywords:  Agboville, chemical Components, Côte-d'Ivoire, Ethnomedicine, Krobou, Phytochemistry<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1812-0741
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/scinat.v6i1.48575
ID  - ref1
ER  -