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A major step towards rational use of medicines was taken in 1977, when WHO established the 1st Model List of Essential Medicines to assist countries in formulating their own national lists. In 1985, the present definition of rational use was agreed at an international conference in Kenya. In 1989, the International Network for the Rational Use of Drugs (INRUD) was formed to conduct multi-disciplinary intervention research projects to promote more rational use of medicines (e-mail inrud msh.org, web site http //www.msh.org/inrud). Following this. [Pg.85]

Latorre, D. L. and F. A. Latorre. Plants used by the Mexican Kickapoo Indians. Econ Bot 1977 31 340—357. Yesilada, E., G. Honda, E. Sezike, M. Tabata, T. Fujita, T. Tanaka, Y. Takeda and Y. Takaishi. Traditional medicine in Turkey. V. Folk medicine in the inner Taurus Mountains. J Ethnopharmacol 1995 46(3) 133-152. Loewenthal, R. and J. Pe er. Traditional methods used in the treatment of ophthalmic diseases among the Turkana tribe in North West Kenya. J Ethnopharmacol 1991 33(3) 227-229. Klauss, V. and H. S. Adala. Traditional herbal eye medicine in Kenya. World Health Forum 1994 15(9) 138-143. Wasuwat, S. A list of Thai medicinal plants, ASRCT, Bangkok, Report No. 1 on Res. Project. 17. Res Report,... [Pg.27]

Giordano, ]., and P. ]. Levine. Botanical preparations used in Italian folk medicine possible pharmacological and chemical basis of effect. Social Pharmacol 1989 3(1/2) 83-110. Homer, K. A., F. Manji, and D. Beighton. Inhibition of protease activities of periodontopathic bacteria by extracts of plants used in Kenya as chewing sticks (mswaki). Arch Oral... [Pg.396]

Seven Israeli children were seriously harmed when their parents used homeopaths and other providers of complementary medicine instead of conventional doctors four died (136). Similarly, it has been reported that seeing a traditional healer in Kenya increased the risk of dying from an acute pneumonia by 5.3 times (137). [Pg.893]

The plants used for this study were collected primarily based on information provided by medicine men in East Africa, mainly in Kenya and Tanzania (3). Botanically identified plants were extracted with methanol at ambient temperatures. The extracts were first tested for their antimicrobial activity against four representative microorganisms at 100 fig/ml (4). The active extracts were then tested against more microorganisms. As a result, interestingly, the information gathered from medicine... [Pg.233]

Kenya. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine Hygiene, 51, 265-270. Cooles, P. (1980). Abuse of the mushroom... [Pg.122]

Kokwaro, J.O. (1993). Medicinal plants of East Africa. (2nd Ed.). Kenya literature Bureau, Nairobi. [Pg.99]

Tamarind or Tamarindus indica L. of the Fabaceae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae, is an important food in the tropics. It is a multipurpose tree of which almost every part finds at least some use 17), either nutritional or medicinal. Tamarind is indigenous to tropical Africa but it has been introduced and naturahzed worldwide in over 50 coimtries. The major production areas ate in the Asian coimtries India and Thailand, but also in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia. In America, Mexico and Costa Rica are the biggest producers. Africa on the whole does not produce tamarind on a cotmnercial scale, though it is widely used by the local people. Minor producing countries in Africa ate Senegal, Gambia, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia (5, 17). [Pg.86]

Anethum graveolens L. (Dill) The essential oil (3.3%) of the mature dried frait of this plant (33) contains mainly carvone and phellandrene. The oil (2.5-5%) from other countries has been reported to contain (5)-(+)-carvone (18-81%), dihydrocarvone (0.1 to 62%) and (R)-(+)-hmonene (10-50 %) (34). Dill is exotic to Kenya and the seeds are used as spices. Although the leaves are used in many countries, in Kenya they are rarely used. The oil has spasmolytic and antimicrobial effects (34). Dill water is a product containing this oil which is used as a carminative, antispasmodic and as gripe medicine for infants. [Pg.497]

Lippia species are used extensively in Africa for medicinal purposes and they have all been found to be rich in essential oils. The essential oils from the reported eight known Lippia species in Kenya have been studied extensively. Whereas L. grandifolia is the most common in West Africa, L. ukambensis Vatke and L. javanica Vatke are the most widely distributed in East Africa and particularly in Kenya. The remaining Lippia species are limited in their ecological distribution. Lippia dauensis is rare and is located in the dry areas of Kenya (78). [Pg.505]

There are research institutions which have the primary mandates to undertake research and development of traditional medicines. Examples of such institutions include the Institute of Traditional Medicine (Mali), Centre for Medicinal Plant Research (Ghana), National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRD, Nigeria), Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kenya), and Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (South Africa). [Pg.9]

Department of Public Health, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Nairobi, P.O. Box 29053-00625, Nairobi, Kenya. [Pg.20]

Chemistry Department, Kenyatta University, P.O. Box 43844-00100, Nairobi, Kenya Engineering Departments, Kenyatta University, P.O. Box 43844-00100, Nairobi, Kenya Traditional Medicine Research Institute, Muhimbili University Hospital, P.O. Box 65000, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania... [Pg.152]

Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group Centre for Geographic Medicine, KEMRi/University of Oxford/ Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme, Nairobi, Kenya... [Pg.411]

Traditionally, Erythrina species have found use amongst different communities for various ailments. The bark of E. fusca and E. indica, for example, has been used for the treatment of fever, malaria, rheumatism, toothache, boils and fractures. Boiled roots of the same were taken internally as a remedy for beriberi. In Kenya, a concoction of dried bark of E. ahyssinica has been used for the treatment of trachoma (oral) and elephantiasis (external) and its roots against malaria and syphilis, while the pounded green stem bark is taken as an antihelminthic [3]. The water extract of flowers of E. americana have been used in Mexico for the treatment of insomnia. The resl of other documented traditional medicinal uses are listed in Table 1. [Pg.822]

Dr. Mary Hardy is an integrative medicine physician who received her Doctor of Medicine degree from Louisiana State University School of Medicine and studied medical ethics at Harvard Divinity School and Loma Linda University. She has studied with herbal practitioners in the United States and Europe and visited traditional healers in Peru, Kenya, South Africa, Morocco and China. She is the complementary and alternative... [Pg.1017]

Karanja, D.M., Colley, D.G., Nahlen, B.L., Ouma, J.H., and Secor, W.E. (1997) Studies on schistosomiasis in western Kenya 1. Evidence for immune-fadlitated excretion of schistosome eggs from patients with Schistosoma mansoni and human immimodefidency vims coinfections. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hy ne, 56, 515-521. [Pg.374]

Myrsint, Maesa, Rapanea, and Embelia are four genera of trees and shrubs that are widely used in herbal medicine in Kenya. The fruits of Myrsine afri-cana afforded benzoquinone derivative (methylvilangin, 188, 03PHY855). [Pg.177]

A further measure of the strength of Kenya-based pharmaceutical production is its export success, which accelerated from about 2002. Kenyan pharmaceutical producers main export destinations are in the COMESA region the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, which does not include South Africa or Tanzania. However, the Kenyan industry still supplies a tiny fraction of COMESA s medicines market, while provisioning only around a quarter of its own domestic market. There is substantial room for expansion. With supportive government policies, Kenya should be able to exploit effectively the integration of East African and Southern African markets to expand its role as one of the medicines production hubs in Sub-Saharan Africa. Chapter 2 discusses the industrial challenges in depth. [Pg.19]

Tanzania has a shorter history of pharmaceutical manufacturing than the two countries just discussed. In the colonial period during World War II, facilities for manufacturing simple medicines were established to counter the risk of blockade. However, after the war, these closed, and the country reverted to imports. The mainland, then called Tanganyika, did not, unlike Zimbabwe and Kenya, have a large colonial settler population in the pre-independence period, and the level of industrialization at independence was correspondingly small. [Pg.19]

The features of the local production of medicines are shaped by the characteristics of the Kenyan economic and industrial systems, which in turn are the product of its economic history. To analyse this shaping, this chapter briefly presents and then applies an evolutionary economic understanding of industrial capabilities, focusing particularly on technological capabilities at the firm and industrial system level, their sources and evolution. This framework of industrial analysis is also used in a number of subsequent chapters in this book. It is particularly illuminating for the analysis of the development of an industry, pharmaceuticals, that is technologically demanding relative to the industrial and economic context in a low-income country such as Kenya. [Pg.25]

Figure 2.1 Local production of non-parenteral medicines in Kenya by type of product, 2007-13 (US million)... Figure 2.1 Local production of non-parenteral medicines in Kenya by type of product, 2007-13 (US million)...

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