Ethnobotanical Survey of Medicinal Herb Used by Healer of Sekhukhune, Limpopo, South Africa For Management of HIV/AIDS During Covid-19

Jacobus Kori Madisha*
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Jacobus Kori Madisha*: Limpopo Education,84 Limpopo Street, Modimolle, South Africa P.O Box 1777, Marble Hall 0450, South Africa

International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation, 2025, vol. 12, issue 15, 359-371

Abstract: Introduction HIV/AIDS rests one of the greatest important worldwide healthiness challenges, distressing masses of individuals global. Meanwhile the commencement of the infection, countless worldwide reaction approaches have been developed and executed, directing to moderate its impression and finally exterminate it. Although these policies devise generated extraordinary improvement, there are quiet key obstacles hindering the worldwide battle alongside the virus. Aim To survey was to recognise and document plants customarily castoff to manage HIV/AIDS and extravagance its unscrupulous contagions Sekhukhune, a rural District, Limpopo Province, South Africa. Materials and methods Semi-structured interviews and focus group debates were directed with 35 traditional health practitioners from June 2020 to June 2021 to obtain evidence about therapeutic plants used in the controlling of HIV/AIDS related. Results Twenty eight plant species have its place to 22 families were recognised for the controlling of HIV and cure of related infections in Sekhukhune. The recognised plant species have its place frequently to the families in Asphodelaceae (3.7%), Fabaceae (11.11%), Asteraceae (9.09%), Capparaceae (3.7%), Mesembyanthemaceae (3.7%), Sapindaceae(3.7%), Myrtaceae(3.7%), Euphorbiaceae(3.7%), Malvaceae(3.7%), Hypoxidaceae(13,63), Verbanaceae(3.7%), Hyacinthaceae(3.7%), Geraniaceae(3.7%), Salicaeae(3.7%), Anacardiaceae(3.7%), Zingiberaceae(3.7%), Caricaceae(3.7%), Ebenaceae(3.7%), Hyacinthaceae(3.7%), Lamiaceae(3.7%), Acacia(3.7%), Amaryllidaceae(3.7%). Conclusion This survey offers citations of therapeutic plants castoff in the controlling of HIV and usage of usually related symptoms, organised with the ARV, which strength offer a possible central that will meaningfully contribute in dropping the encumbrance of HIV contagions in South Africa. We foresee that this paper will offer some contextual for supplementary studies in unindustrialized new, active, non-toxic and inexpensive phytomedicines.

Date: 2025
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