Antimalarial Effect and 0ther Properties of Hoslundia opposita – A Review

Sadri Abdullah Said
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Sadri Abdullah Said: School of Pharmacy, University of Nizwa, Oman

Global Journal of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2017, vol. 4, issue 3, 42-47

Abstract: Hoslundia opposita Vahl a plant widely distributed in Africa belongs to the family Lamiaceae and is the only species in the genus Hoslundia. Ethnobotanical and ethnopharmacological knowledge on H. oppositaas effective antimalarial species resemble those of cinchona from South America and qinghao from China. Preliminary biomedical study on H. opposita afforded potent antimalarial metabolites. Extending the biomedical work on this plant as well as on other antimalarial plants from Africa might see the continent taking its turn in providing a powerful antimalarial agent after quinine from America and artemisinin from Asia. This paper gives a brief review of H. opposita and is a call to researchers to investigate this plant and other potent antimalarial species growing in Africa.

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Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.19080/GJPPS.2017.04.555636

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