The technical cooperation project between Belgium and the University of Zambia at the Department of Soil Science

Abstract

In veterinary medicine of african tradition in Kivu and Kibali-lturi (Zaire), we have identified 32 medicinal plants used alone or in association at the time of verminosis, diarrhea, coprostasis and meteorism. The parts of the plant intervene in the following proportions : leaves (59 %), fruits and seeds (12 %), whole plant (12 %), stems barks (9 %), roots, rhizoms and tubers (5 %), roots'barks (3 %). After maceration (51 % of cases), decoction (25 %) or without modification (20 %), the way of administration is oral in 90 % of cases and anal in 10 % of cases. Our data led us to suggest that plants previously submitted to a pharmacological screening could be introduced and maintained by management technics of paturages before pharmacotechnical studies or industrial production of medicaments.