Anthropology
Open Access
ISSN: 2332-0915
ISSN: 2332-0915
Rogasian LA Mahunnah
Tanzania, United Republic of
Review Article
Prospects and Challenges of Medicinal Plants Conservation and Traditional Medicine in Tanzania
Author(s): Edmund J Kayombo, Rogasian L A Mahunnah and Febronia C Uiso
Edmund J Kayombo, Rogasian L A Mahunnah and Febronia C Uiso
A qualitative study was carried to assess prospects and challenges of medicinal plants conservation and traditional medicine in Tanzania. The study shows that TRM and medicinal have great prospects in healthcare delivery worldwide. These prospects have more impact in developing countries where 70%-80% of population used TRM for Primary Healthcare (PHC). It is reported that 25% of prescribed drugs in conventional healthcare were derived from their ethnomedicinal use in TRM. Medicinal plants still provided hope for discovery of new drugs for the resistant diseases and those that were not treated by conventional prescribed drugs. Traditional medicine and medicinal plants were faced with challenges notably; threats due to increasing depletion of the natural resource as an impact of population increase, urbanization, modernization of agriculture and climatic change. There was erosion of in.. View More»
DOI:
10.4172/2332-0915.1000108