This study demonstrated that the demographic profile of the Eastern Cape Province portrayed high levels of poverty and underdevelopment in the mostly rural population. This is despite the fact that the Eastern Cape is ...
Chigor, Chinyere Blessing(University of Fort Hare, 2014)
In South Africa, many plants which are used in traditional medicines are collected from wild populations. The high demand for trade and use of these medicinal plants place an enormous pressure on their natural populations, ...
Asowata-Ayodele, Abiola Mojisola(University of Fort Hare, 2015)
Spices are of great importance in the indigenous culinary and traditional medicine systems of the people of Nkonkobe Municipality of the Eastern Cape, South Africa. The present investigation evaluated the ethnopharmacological ...
Sowunmi, Linda Ifeanyichukwu(University of Fort Hare, 2015)
South Africa has wide ranges of plants among which are leafy vegetables growing in the wild. These wild vegetables have been reported to have high nutritive and medicinal potentials. Yet, there is still high prevalence of ...
Kibiti, Cromwell Mwiti(University of Fort Hare, 2016)
Diabetes mellitus is a chronic physiological carbohydrate metabolic disorder with significant
impact on the economy, quality of life and life expectancy in South Africa. Herbal medicine
has become the alternative therapy ...