This book offers detailed information on the best African medicinal plants that could be useful for the development of efficient herbal drugs, as well as the best phytochemicals that could be explored as potential pharmaceuticals to efficiently overcome cancers and their drug resistance. The book identifies and comments on the best cytotoxic African medicinal plants. The book also provides knowledge on ethnomedicinal uses of the identified plants, their pharmacological potency, and their phytochemistry. An overview of the relationship between cancer and other human diseases healed in the traditional health system with the plants documented is also highlighted. The book appears a unique tool for Scientists to have state-of-the-art of the best cytotoxic plants from the African flora.
Table of Contents
1. African medicinal spices are potent cytotoxic botanicals to fight cancer and cancer drug resistanceVictor Kuete
2. Ethnomedicinal uses, phytochemistry, and antiproliferative potential of Albizia adianthifolia
Idrios N. Bonsou, Armelle T. Mbaveng and Victor Kuete
3. Beilschmiedia acuta as a potential source of anticancer phytomedicine
Victor Kuete
4. Ethnomedicinal uses, phytochemistry and antiproliferative potential of the genus Erythrina
Aim� G. Fankam and Victor Kuete
5. Ethnomedicinal uses, phytochemistry, and cytotoxic antiproliferative potential of Hypericum roeperianum
Michel-Gael F. Guefack and Victor Kuete
6. Ethnomedicinal uses, phytochemistry and cytotoxic potential of Polyscias fulva
Simplice B. Tankeo and Victor Kuete
7. Ethnomedicinal uses, phytochemistry and cytotoxic antiproliferative potential of Raphia vinifera
Joachim Dzotam Kamgue and Victor Kuete
8. Uapaca togoensis as a source of phytomedicine to fight recalcitrant cancers
Armel J. Seukep and Victor Kuete
9. Ethnomedicinal uses, phytochemistry, and antiproliferative potential of Vepris soyauxii
Victor Kuete
10. A comprehensive review of the ethnomedicinal uses, phytochemistry, and pharmacology of potential anticancer plants of the flora of Africa
Victor Kuete
