Abstract
Frequency of Anti-HCV, HBsAg, HIV1-p24 Antigen, Acid Fast Bacilli and Plasmodium spp., in Herbal Home and Hospital Patients with Elevated TNFα (≥ 5.0 pg/ml) in Saki, West Nigeria
Highlights
Herbal treatment involves the administration of dietary supplement in form of tablets, capsules, powders, teas, extracts, and fresh or dried plants
The overall frequency of the infectious agents was more in herbal homes patients (58.5%(13)) than 37.5%(12) obtained in hospital patients
The frequency of viral immunochemical biomarkers, Acid Fast Bacilli and Plasmodium spp., was more in herbal home patients than the patients recruited from the hospital which varies with the TNFα range
Summary
Herbal treatment involves the administration of dietary supplement in form of tablets, capsules, powders, teas, extracts, and fresh or dried plants. Plants are basis for medical treatments in human history. Pharmaceutical drugs are made from many plant-derived compounds. According to World Health Organization (WHO) about 80 percent of the population in Asian and African countries use herbal medicine for some aspect of primary health care[1,2]. About 25% of modern drugs used in the United States were derived from plants[1,2]. At least 7,000 medical compounds in the modern pharmacopoeia are derived from plants. Out of the 120 active compounds currently isolated from plants and used in modern medicine currently, 80% show a positive correlation between their modern therapeutic use and the traditional use of the plants from which they are derived[1,2]
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