In vitro response of Plasmodium falciparum to some medicinal plants in Vietnam
- Author:
Son Tong Phan
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Traditional medicine
- MeSH:
Plants, Medicinal;
Antimalarials;
Plasmodium falciparum
- From:Pharmaceutical Journal
1999;282(10):13-17
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
The response of the malarial parasite, Plasmodium falciparum to a number of Vietnamese medicinal plants in vitro was carried out. The results showed that the ethanol extract of the plant materials has a stronger inhibitory effect on the growth of P. faciparum than the corresponding water extract. Both ethanol and water extracts of the leaves of Dichroa febrifuge Lour. and the ethnologic extracts from the leaves of Parthenium hysterrophorus L. and Harrisonia perforate (Blanco) Merr. have a clear effect on the chloroquine sensitivity as well as the chloroquine resistant P. falciparum strain
