Table 3.

Plants from Nigeria with activity against African trypanosomes.

Family	Species	Traditional Uses	Plant Part	Ref.
Fabaceae	Acacia nilotica	used to treat cancers and/or tumours of ear, eye	SB	[72,73]
	Afzelia Africana	trypanosomiasis, convulsion, hernia	WP	[74]
	Parkia clappertoniana	dental caries, conjunctivitis	R	[75]
	Piliostigma reticulatum	ulcer, boils, wounds, cancer, syphilis and diarrhoea	L	[76]
	Prosopis Africana	used to prepare food in Northern Nigeria	SB	[77]
	Afrormosia laxiflora	epilepsy and psychosis	L	[39]
	Erythrophleum suaveolus	arthritis, rheumatism, dropsy, swelling, eye treatment, laxative	SB	[39]
	Lonchocarpus laxiflorus	dermatitis, headache, intestinal worm, jaundice, ulcer, anthelmintic	SB	[48]
	Swartzia madagascariensis	poison arrow and fishing, insecticide	R	[48]
	Senna occidentalis	bacterial and malaria infections	L	[ 89]
Fagaceae	Quercus borealis	dyspnea, nausea, emesis, diarrhoea and muscular pain	L	[78]
Hymenocardiaceae	Hymenocardia acida	Hypertension	R, SB	[80]
Lamiaceae	Ocimum gratissimum	the oil is medicine for respiratory tract infections, diarrhoea, eye problem, skin diseases	L	[88]
	Hyptis spicigera	Cold, insecticides	L	[59]
Lauraceae	Cassytha filiformis	food and infectious diseases	L, S	[48]
Loganiaceae	Anthocleista vogelii	purgative, diuretic, ulcer, stomach-ache	R, SB	[87]
	Strychnos spinosa	taken by lactating women to stimulate breast milk production	L	[96]
Loranthaceae	Tapinanthus globiferus	hypertension epilepsy, relief pain, tinnitus and trypanosomiasis	L, SB	[99]
Lythraceae	Lawsonia inermis	used to adorn women’s bodies as part of social and holiday celebration	L	[39]
	Punica granatum	diarrhoea, dysentery	L	[100]
Malvaceae	Bombax buonopozense	to treat edema	SB	[102]
	Adansonia digitata	to treat cancer	SD	[101]
	Sterculia setigera	used as a thickener and emulsifier	R	[39]
Melastomataceae	Heterotis rotundifolia	malaria, rheumatism, diarrhoea	WP	[102]
	Dissotis rotundifolia	trypanosomiasis treatment	L	[104]

R = root, RB = root bark, SB = stem bark, L = leaves, S = stem, WP = whole plant, Re = rhizome, B = bark, SD = seed.