Abstract
Napoleonaea vogelii, Lecythidaceae family is a tropical evergreen shrub widely distributed in the coastal regions of West African countries including Benin. It is a medicinal plant whose leaves and bark are of great utility in traditional medicine. Despite its importance, it is little used in ethnoveterinary medicine and its pharmacological basis in this field and especially in the treatment of parasitic diseases caused by Haemonchus contortus is very little documented. This review aims to synthesise existing data on the chemical composition, pharmacological and zootechnical usefulness of N. vogelii and to identify the gaps of these works in order to propose research perspectives. Google Scholar database was used to gather the majority of useful information available on N. vogelii. The results showed that of the 23 publications included in the present study, 60.87% dealt distinctly with the pharmacological properties of N. vogelii. These properties include anthelmintic, antidiabetic, wound healing, antimicrobial, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant properties and N. vogelii contains many secondary metabolites including alkaloids, tannins, flavonoids, saponins, glycosides which give it its pharmacological properties. The Correspondence Factor Analysis performed for the variables extracts and chemical compounds showed that the presence of a given chemical compound is not dependent on the type of extract. This work has gathered information on N. vogelii and found that the species has powerful therapeutic potentials but very little use in traditional veterinary medicine. More research is needed on this plant to make available ethnoveterinary pharmacological data to enable proper use in the treatment of animal diseases in general and gastrointestinal parasitosis of small ruminants in particular.
Highlights
Plants contain several active ingredients with therapeutic properties [1]
The results showed that of the 23 publications included in the present study, 60.87% dealt distinctly with the pharmacological properties of N. vogelii
Napoleonaea vogelii is one such plant species. It belongs to the Lecythidaceae family and is a tropical flowering plant widely distributed in the coastal regions of West Africa mostly in the rain forest and along the sea shores, extending from Sierra-Leone through Nigeria to Benin [6] [7] [8]
Summary
Plants contain several active ingredients with therapeutic properties [1]. Their use in the treatment of human and animal diseases has an important place in the life of people in Africa. The African flora, mainly that of Benin, is endowed with several species of medicinal plants which the population uses to treat both human and animal diseases [6]. The plant (shrub or a small spreading tree) grows up to 15 m high with fibrous and alternate leaves. The latter, usually 7.5 to 15 cm long and 3.25 to 7.5 cm wide are broadly elliptic, abruptly acuminate and shallowly toothed. This literature review aims to bring together in a single document the available information on the chemical composition, pharmacological and zootechnical uses of N. vogelii in order to shed light on this little known medicinal species in the scientific world
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