Medicinal plants for management and alternative therapy of common ailments in Dutsin-Ma (Katsina State) in Nigeria

Abstract

Introduction: Nowadays, many synthetic drugs comes with various degrees of side effects, accumulative toxicity and development of resistance by microorganisms. Medicinal plants used worldwide can be developed into modern drugs with little or no side effects and greater efficacy.

Keywords

• ethnobotanical survey
• medicinal plants
• traditional herbalist
• common ailments
• alternative therapy