“A Review of Parquetina nigrescens (Afzel.) Bullock, A Plant for Traditional Medicine: Phytochemical and Pharmacological Properties”

Table 1

Summary of claim traditional uses of part of P. nigrescens and types of preparation.

Plant part used	Type of preparation	Traditional uses
Leaves	Milled and mixed with honey	Fatigue [21]
	Decoction	Diabetes, menstrual disorders, stomach ulcer, diarrhea, insanity, gastric ulcer, asthma, sickling cell anemia, salmonella, and whopping cough [6, 7, 9, 23–25]
	Pounded and macerated fresh leaves	Headaches, fatigue [26], head lice, and skin diseases. [3]
	Infusion	Pile and lower back pain [9] wound healing [5]
	Powder	Supporting immune system
Roots	Decoction	Menstrual pain, gonorrhea, and nicotine poisoning [5]
	Infusion	Dysentery, measles, intestinal worms, and snake bite [5]
	Crush/milled	Venereal disease [5]
	Crush/milled in olive oil or shea butter (Vitellaria paradoxa)	Snake and insect repellent [5, 9]
	Paste	Convulsion, vomiting, nausea, and epilepsies [5]
	Pulverized roots	Aphrodisiac when applied on the body [28]
Stem bark	Decoction	Cardiac tonic [5] and aphrodisiac [29]
	Pulverized stem bark	Arthritis and rheumatism [28]
Flowers	Greenish outside, deep red inside	Beautification and aesthetic purposes [33]
Latex and leaf sap	Milky fluid	Wound, abscesses., burns treatments, and tumors [32] venereal diseases
Leaves sap	Milky fluid	Jaundice and conjunctivitis [31]
Latex	White, hardening to black	Arrow poison for hunting bush meat and production of black rubber [33]

source: Summary of claim traditional uses of parts of the plant was generated by Authors’.