A Bioactivity Versus Ethnobotanical Survey of Medicinal Plants from Nigeria, West Africa

Traditional medicinalpractices play a key role in health care systems in countries with developing economies. The aim of this survey was to validate the use of traditional medicinewithin local Nigeriancommunities. In this review, we examine the ethnobotanical uses of selected plant species from the Nigerianflora and attempt to correlate the activities of the isolated bioactive principles with known uses of the plant species in African traditional medicine. Thirty-three (33) plant species were identified and about 100 out of the 120 compounds identified with these plants matched with the ethnobotanical uses of the plants.