Effect of Some Selected Plants in the Treatment of Viral Infection

Authors

  • O. S. Usiobeigbe Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Achievers University, Owo, Ondo State
  • E. O. Omoviye Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Babcock University, Ilisan Remo, Ogun State
  • A. Kayode Department of Biochemistry, Babcock University, Ilisan Remo, Ogun State
  • A. O. Hassan Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Achievers University, Owo, Ondo State
  • A. O. Abdulrahman Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Achievers University, Owo, Ondo State

Abstract

Medicinal plants have posed as natural resources of compounds with pharmacological and nutritional properties aiding humans to prevent and treat diseases. These plants also have therapeutic properties and exert beneficial pharmacological effect on man and animal as curative medicine. Thus, necessitating the need to select some plants such as: Turmeric (Curcuma longa), Bitter Kola (Garcinia kola Heckel), Mimosa pudica, Ganoderma lucidium, Persea americana, Ginger (Zingiber officinale), Moringa Oleifera and grape in the treatment of viral infection. The study majorly review literatures on those selected plants in the treatment of viral infection due to their availability, affordability and current integration of herbal medicine into modern health care plan to proffer scientific solution to health care problem through the use of medicinal plant. Therefore, the active ingredients of these selected plants can be good candidates in the treatment of viral diseases.

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Published

2021-07-28

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2021): Achievers Journal of Scientific Research (AJOSR)

Section

Original Research