Africa is a treasure trove of medicinal plants: here are seven that are popular - The Conversation Africa

Thousands of plant species are used in African traditional medicine. Extracts from some of these plants are part of important pharmaceutical drugs.

Plants have directly contributed to the development of important drugs. The antimalarial treatment artemisinin, pain medication morphine, and cancer chemotherapy taxol are just three examples of drug… [+8075 chars]

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