J Ethnopharmacol. 1992 Sep; 37(2): 165-73.

Medicinal plants used by the Fang traditional healers in Equatorial Guinea.

AkendenguÃ© B.

Department of Traditional Medicine and Pharmacopoeia, CICIBA, Libreville, Gabon.

This work is an ethnobotanical study of some medicinal plants used by the Fang traditional healers of two regions of Equatorial Guinea in Central Africa: Malabo and Bata. For each species listed, the family, the botanical name, the voucher specimen number, the vernacular name, the pharmacological and therapeutical properties are given.