A Review on Medicinal Plants Used as Alternative Treatment for Malaria: An Anti-malarial Drug

Abstract

Malaria remains an important risk around the globe public health, particularly in tropical and subtropical areas. Malaria, a disease that infects millions of human beings worldwide, is still caused by numerous Plasmodium species, with Plasmodium falciparum being the most virulent and common in sub-Saharan Africa. Pregnant women tend to be at high risk despite great success in lowering malaria-related deaths. This study focuses on using natural antimalarial treatments in Ghana, an economy with a severe malaria epidemic. Communities in Ghana rely on those natural remedies because they perceive them to be efficient and affordable, especially in rural areas. The study's objectives involve figuring out the herbs applied in these preparations, evaluating their scientific validity, and deciding if they correspond to the requirements of the FDA for domestic and foreign marketing. The World Health Organization's World Health Assembly has recognized the elimination of parasitic infections as one of its top goals. The obstacle with current antimalarial drug resistance necessitates people to search for novel treatments. The success rate of various plant-based malaria treatments is looked at in this study. In the end, results indicate the need for additional study in the search for appropriate antimalarial medical products and educate us to understand conventional herbal treatments and their roles in fighting the spread of malaria.