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Allied J Med Res 2017
Volume 1 Issue 2 Herbal Medicine 2017
September 01-02, 2017 London, UK
3rd International Conference and Expo on
Herbal & Alternative Medicine
Page 63
Influence of environmental factors on
the effectiveness of an antidiabetic plant:
Laportea ovalifolia (Schumach. and Thonn.)
Chew. (Urticaceae)
Tsabang Nole1, 2, Yedjou Clement G2 and Tchounwou Paul B3
1University of Yaounde1, Cameroon
2University of Dschang, Cameroon
Objective/Purpose: The environmental factors have
influence on the effectiveness of medicinal plants. Plants
collected without taking in consideration these influences
may be insignificant active or not active. Furthermore
active plants harvested habitats may not active when
they are collected out of these habitats. These hazardous
medicinal plants’ harvesting is responsible of the traditional
healer’s failed treatments. The failure in the treatments
happened when traditional healers change their native
region, where they usually collect plants. The purpose
of this study is to verify the influence of changing of the
habitat of a plant in the traditional healers’ treatments of
diabetes. However, this evaluation of traditional healers’
diabetic patients’ treatments according to habitats of plant
used has not been previously studied.
Material & Methods: An ethnopharmacological survey
was carried out at traditional healers who treat diabetes
with Laportea ovalifolia . In previous studies we have
controlled 30 patients using drugs prepared with material
brought from Fongo-Tongo (native habitat) and in the
second we controlled 30 patients treated with material
collected in Mount Nkala (residential habitat). Patients
used their glucometers during the control.
Results: The variety harvested is a perennial male plant.
The mean level of blood glucose in diabetic patients of
group 1 who took the plant harvested from Fongo-Tongo
(West region) became normal between 1 to 10 days. The
mean level of blood glucose in those of group 2 who took
the plant harvested in Indian Journal of Natural Products
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Nkala (Centre region) failed town between 3 to 15 days.
Conclusion: The differences between the values of
blood glucose concentrations in the two cases were not
significant. Recommendations are made for chemists to
determine the chemical composition of the samples of
Laportea ovalifolia that would help to explain the variation
of the active compounds responsible of the failure of blood
glucose level.
Allied J Med Res 2017