TY - JOUR AU - Ntie-Kang, Fidele AU - Lifongo, Lydia Likowo AU - Mbaze, Luc Meva’a AU - Ekwelle, Nnange AU - Owono Owono, Luc C. AU - Megnassan, Eugene AU - Judson, Philip N. AU - Sippl, Wolfgang AU - Efange, Simon M. N. PY - 2013 DA - 2013/06/26 TI - Cameroonian medicinal plants: a bioactivity versus ethnobotanical survey and chemotaxonomic classification JO - BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine SP - 147 VL - 13 IS - 1 AB - In Cameroon herbs are traditionally used to meet health care needs and plans are on the way to integrate traditional medicine in the health care system, even though the plans have not been put into action yet. The country however has a rich biodiversity, with ~8,620 plant species, some of which are commonly used in the treatment of several microbial infections and a range of diseases (malaria, trypanosomiasis, leishmaniasis, diabetes and tuberculosis). SN - 1472-6882 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6882-13-147 DO - 10.1186/1472-6882-13-147 ID - Ntie-Kang2013 ER -