Table 4.

Plants from Nigeria with activity against African trypanosomes.

Family	Species	Traditional Uses	Plant Part	Ref.
Meliaceae	Khaya senegalensis	to treat malaria	L, AS	[109]
	Pseudocedrella kotschi	to treat diarrhoea, dysentery, epilepsy	SB	[39]
Moraceae	Ficus sycomorus	to treat snakebite, jaundice, dysentery	SB	[39]
Moringaceae	Moringa oleifera	to treat diabetes and intestinal worms	L, S, SB, R	[116]
Myrtaceae	Psidium guajava	to treat diarrhoea, hypertension	L	[118]
	Syzygium guineense	used to bath ill person	SB	[113]
	Eucalyptus camaldulensis	used to treat malaria and typhoid fevers	L	[120]
Ochnaceae	Lophira lanceolata	dermatosis, toothache, muscular tiredness	L, SB	[87]
	Ximenia americana	treatment of fever, jaundice, impotence, sleeping sickness	SB	[123]
Plantaginaceae	Picrorhiza kurroa	to treat asthma, bronchitis, chronic dysentery, malaria	WP	[124]
Poaceae	Canarium schweinfurthii	burnt for fumigation	SB	[39]
Polygalaceae	Securidaca longepedunculata	to treat cough, chest pain, toothache and diabetes	R	[113]
Rubiaceae	Gardenia erubescens	used as dye	L	[92]
	Nauclea latifolia	to treat fever, dental caries, sceptic mouth, malaria	B	[125]
	Nauclea pobeguinii	to treat fever, dental caries, sceptic mouth, malaria	B	[43]
	Keetia leucantha	to treat malaria	L	[127]
	Mitracarpus scaber	to treat headache, toothache, venereal disease, amenorrhoea, dyspepsia, leprosy	L	[128]
	Morinda lucida	used to treat malaria	L	[115]
Rutaceae	Zanthoxylum zanthoxyloides	stomach disorder, worm infection	SB	[70]
Solanaceae	Withania somnifera	to treat external tumors, tubercular glands and ulcer	WP	[43]
Ulmaceae	Trema orientalis	to treat cough, sore throats, asthma, bronchitis, gonorrhea, yellow fever, toothaches	L	[70]
Verbenaceace	Vitex doniana	anemia, gonorrhea, dysentery and to improve fertility	L	[70]
	Vitex simplicifolia	to treat malaria	L	[131]
Vitaceae	Cissus multistriata	for the management of protein deficiency	L	[130]
Zingiberaceae	Zingiber officinale	gastrointestinal diseases, dyspnea, nausea, emesis, diarrhoea and muscular pain	R	[83]

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