Halima Mvungi Amir

• Lecturer at University of Dar es Salaam; Dar es Salaam University College of Education, Tanzania

This study is aimed at documenting the indigenous knowledge and quantitative analysis of medicinal plants (MPs) used by traditional health practitioners (THPs) of Urambo District in mid-western Tanzania to manage respiratory tract disorders (RTDs). The ethnomedicinal data were collected using semistructured interviews with 55 THPs using a snowballi...

Background: Gastrointestinal disorders (GIDs) have a considerable effect on global morbidity and mortality. Nyamwezi people in Tanzania still use traditional medicinal plants (TMPs) as their first-aid medications against GIDs. The purpose of this study was to record the TMPs that Tanzania's Nyamwezi traditional health practitioners (THPs) employ to...

Ethnobotany Research and Applications 28:11 (2024)-http://dx. Abstract Background: Constipation is a common gastrointestinal disorder in most low-and middle-income countries, including Tanzania. The disorder causes economic burdens to many societies in the country. Most of the locals in Tanzania depend on medicinal plants (MPs) to treat various ail...

Background: Tanzania's rural population trusts medicinal plants (MPs) to manage gynaecological disorders due to their easy accessibility and affordability. Despite MPs' crucial role in treating various diseases in the country, no study has explicitly compiled MPs used for gynaecological disorders. This review documents MPs used to treat women's inf...

Since research has shown that the classification of plants into noun classes varies from one Bantu language to another (Legère, 2020), the present article contributes to the formation of the canonical noun classes for plants in the Nyamwezi and Sukuma languages in Tanzania. The data was gathered in Mwanza, Shinyanga, Simiyu and Tabora regions mainl...

Ethnobotany Research and Applications 25:30 (2023)-http://dx. Abstract Background: Globally, erectile dysfunction (ED) is a public health concern that upsets men's psychosocial well

Context Haemorrhoids are one of the most common gastrointestinal disorders in humans. In Tanzania, particularly in the Tabora region, medicinal plants (MPs) are used by traditional healers (THs) to treat haemorrhoids, but no study has explicitly attempted to compile these treatments. Objective This study documents MPs used by THs of the Tabora reg...

Background: Globally, diarrhoea is a primary public health concern associated with high mortality and morbidity. In Tanzania's rural areas, a paucity of contemporary health facilities and poverty have necessitated pursuing traditional remedies. However, the usage of traditional remedies is poorly documented. Therefore, this study aimed to document...

Context Snake envenomation is one of the neglected health problems in Tanzania. Since most people, especially in rural areas, suffer from its burden, their cases are not documented due to reliance on medicinal plants. Despite the pivotal role of medicinal plants in treating snakebites, there is a paucity of information. Objective This review docum...

This study aims to document medicinal plants used by Nyamwezi traditional health practitioners (NTHPs) in managing sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in Sikonge District. The data on medicinal plants were collected using a semi-structured questionnaire. A total of 23 NTHPs were interviewed. The findings revealed that 28 medicinal plants, belong...

Abstract This study aims to document medicinal plants used by Nyamwezi traditional health practitioners (NTHPs) in managing sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in Sikonge District. The data on medicinal plants were collected using a semi-structured questionnaire. A total of 23 NTHPs were interviewed. The findings revealed that 28 medicinal plant...

Seedling emergence technique frequently used in soil seed bank studies indicates that seeds of Miombo species are not present in the soil seed bank. Does this method limit the detection of seeds of Miombo species in the soil seed bank? This question has not been investigated systematically. The present study aims to find out whether the seedling em...

The genus Aloe (Asphodelaceae) is well known in Tanzania for its medicinal uses, yet its ethnobotany has not previously been systematically studied in the region. To document the indigenous knowledge of Aloe species, data were collected using semi-structured interviews from 180 respondents of different gender and age groups at four study sites in T...