Here are the details of the herbal plant and its local names in Nigeria The Ghanaian government has approved a herbal medicine, Cryptolepis sanguinolenta, locally known as Nibima, for clinical trials. The plant, which grows freely across sub-Saharan Africa has different local names and it has been used for ages in the treatmentif malaria. In Nigeria it is called Paran pupa (Yoruba), Gangnamau (Hausa) (Osafo et al., 2017) and Akpa-oku (Igbo). C. sanguinolenta is basically responsible for anti- plasmodial activity. The roots of cryptolepis, also known as nibima, kadze, gangamau, Ghanaian…
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