East African quintessential plants claimed to be used as blood purifiers, cleansers, detoxifiers and tonics: an appraisal of ethnobotanical reports and correlation with reported bioactivities

Abstract Background Blood cleansing, purification, detoxification or strengthening is an ancient folkloric East African practice without any validated scientific underpinnings. This study was undertaken to retrieve ethnobotanical information and reported bioactivities of plants claimed to be blood p...

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Main Author: Timothy Omara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2021-10-01
Series:Bulletin of the National Research Centre
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s42269-021-00637-4