A Look at Some Medicinal Plants from Sudan-Mini Review

Tarig Khider

doi:10.21608/aprh.2018.18131

Abstract

Sudan has large area, with multi- culture, habits rich biodiversity and medicinal plants, although was divided in 2011 into two countries still rich with valuable medicinal plants. The objective of the present mini review is to indicate and document some medicinal plants from Sudan and reflect their valuable uses in treating some indigenous and tropical diseases. The present mini- review gave a look at some of these plants, mentioning their families, distribution, their local names, their habits, the plant part used for treating diseases and mode of treatment. The medicinal and Aromatic Plants Research Institute (MAPRI) of the National Centre for Research (NCR) plays major role in medicinal and aromatic plants investigation, determination, valuation and documentation in Sudan and contributes with local healers in different regions of Sudan, the rediscovering of these plants is highly needed with contribution of overseas pharmaceuticals companies as natural products have less side effects than industrial drugs.

Highlights

Sudan was considered as the largest country in Africa (2.5 million sq. km.) which was approximately one million square miles[1]
The medicinal and Aromatic Plants Research Institute (MAPRI) of the National Centre for Research (NCR) is exerting efforts for collecting, conserving, studying and documenting indigenous medicinal and aromatic plants in Sudan.[5,6,7,8], with this unique history and vast variety of climate and flora, traditional medicine together with use of medicinal plants became an important part of the cultural heritage of Sudan[9,10,11]
Four Sudanese medicinal plants were investigated for their anticancer and antioxidant activity to discover some new medicinal plants that can be used http://aprh.journals.ekb.eg/ 238

Summary

INTRODUCTION

Sudan was considered as the largest country in Africa (2.5 million sq. km.) which was approximately one million square miles[1]. Sudan was considered as the largest country in Africa The annuals constitute 80% and perennials 20% of the forage plant composition in Sudan[12,13,14,15]. Four Sudanese medicinal plants were investigated for their anticancer and antioxidant activity to discover some new medicinal plants that can be used http://aprh.journals.ekb.eg/ 238. The selection of medicinal plants in this mini review was carried out according to their availability in different locations, the utilization of local healers in different regions in Sudan and their economic value in traditional medicine. The present mini-review aimed to document some medicinal plants, the traditional application for treating the local diseases in Sudan in period 20152018

Some Sudanese trees as source of traditional medicines

Maceration Decoction

Findings

Cymbopogon proximus