@article{fdi:010080471,
  title = {{C}ountrywide survey of plants used for liver disease management by traditional healers in {B}urkina {F}aso},
  author = {{T}ibiri, {A}. and {B}oria, {S}. and {T}raore, {T}. {K}. and {O}uedraogo, {N}. and {N}ikiema, {A}. and {G}anaba, {S}. and {C}ompaore, {J}. {M}. and {O}uedraogo, {I}. and {G}uissou, {I}. {P}. and {C}arraz, {M}a{\¨e}lle},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{L}iver disease is highly prevalent in {A}frica, especially in the western {A}frican country {B}urkina {F}aso, due to the presence of multiple biological and chemical aggressors of the liver. {F}urthermore, diagnosis and appropriate care for liver disease are uneven and usually insufficient. {T}his drives local communities to turn to folk medicine based on medicinal plants from healers. {S}mall scale, ethnopharmacological studies on reputed hepatoprotective plants have been carried out in defined regions worldwide, but so far, no study has been carried out on a countrywide scale. {T}herefore, we have explored traditional healers' practices in all thirteen regions of {B}urkina {F}aso. {W}e interviewed 575 healers and we compiled a database with 2,006 plant entries. {H}ere, we report results on liver nosology, liver pathologies, medicinal plants used for liver disease, and traditional practices through the lens of {B}urkinabe healers. {O}ur goal was to give a full inventory of medicinal plants used to treat liver disease and to determine if there was consensus on the use of specific plants for specific symptoms. {A}nalysis of the medicinal plants in use across the whole country provides local communities with a wider evidence base to determine which plants may be more effective in treating liver disease and could provide the scientific community, with a shortlist of plants suitable for chemical and pharmacological investigation to validate the plants' therapeutic role.},
  keywords = {ethnopharmacology ; {B}urkina {F}aso ; liver disease ; hepatitis ; hepatocarcinoma ; {BURKINA} {FASO}},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{F}rontiers in {P}harmacology},
  volume = {11},
  numero = {},
  pages = {563751 [14 p.]},
  ISSN = {1663-9812},
  year = {2020},
  DOI = {10.3389/fphar.2020.563751},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010080471},
}