Inventory of plants used in the treatment of viral diseases, sold on markets in the district of Abidjan

This survey, which took place in the midst of Covid 19 global health crisis, was conducted on medicinal plants used traditional treatment most common viral diseases Côte d'Ivoire. The aim to inventory plant species sold and collect ethnopharmacological data related these plants. Semi-structured interviews were with herbalists nine markets district Abidjan. information collected processed using SPSS 17.0 computer statistical software. study revealed that shingles, yellow fever chickenpox are for there more remedies. A total 61 antiviral distribued 59 genera 54 botanical families identified. Fabaceae (14.75 %), Asteraceae (9.8 Apocynaceae %) represented families. Six commonly diseases. They are, decreasing order frequency use: Ocimum gratissimum, Citrus aurantiifolia, Spondias mombin, Allium sativum, Gymnanthemum amygdalinum, Kalanchoe crenata. leaves parts, form a decoction (73.84 %). is consistent predominance beverage (39.62 as use oral route administration (42 study, allowed collection ethnomedicinal data, positioned an orientation search effective active ingredients against emerging ET re-emerging