Faced with critical shortages of staff, long queues, and stigma at public health facilities in Livingstone, Zambia, persons who suffer from HIV/AIDS-related diseases use medicinal plants to manage skin infections, diarrhoea, sexually transmitted infections, tuberculosis, cough, malaria, and oral infections. In all, 94 medicinal plant species were used to manage HIV/AIDS-related diseases. Most r...

Non-parenchymal cells might play an important role in the modulation of xenobiotic metabolism in liver and its pharmacological and toxicological consequences. Therefore, the role of cell-to-cell interactions in herbal induced liver toxicity was investigated in monocultures of cells from the human hepatocyte cell line (HepG2) and in co-cultures of cells from the HepG2 cell line and cells from th...

Local plant resources with high nutritional potential including wild leafy vegetables are an essential link in strategies to promote food security for low-income populations. However, little attention is paid them, even localities where their consumption limited the lean season. Thus, evaluation of contribution five major spontaneous (Acalypha ciliata – AC, Celosia trygina CT, Cleome gynandra C...

Seed dormancy is the major challenge in cultivation of Amaranth and Cleome gynandra. C. gynandra are affected by chemical, physical, physiological dormancy. The current study was conducted at Marondera University Agricultural Sciences Technology (MUAST) farm 2021 2022. effects gibberellic acid potassium nitrate seed treatments on emergence seedling vigour were evaluated. Seeds pre-soaked (contr...

Due to the use of Cleome spinosa Jacq. (Cleomaceae) in traditional medicine against inflammatory and infectious processes, this study evaluated the in vitro antimicrobial potential and phytochemical composition of extracts from its roots and leaves. From leaves (L) and roots (R) of C. spinosa different extracts were obtained (cyclohexane: ChL and ChR; chloroform: CL and CR; ethyl acetate: EAL a...