title: A survey of the use of medicinal plants and other traditional medicine in Kasese District, Uganda.
abstract: The use and value of traditional plants and medicines is only slowly being investigated by Western medical organizations. A survey of 492 members of support groups and health-care clinics in Kasese district, Uganda was undertaken in a group setting: 23 groups with a mean size of 21, age range 4-53, which represented 0.1% of the population, covering nine of the 20 sub-counties, both in the native languages and in English, using photographs and specimens of 12 plants. Most admitted to using plants at some time-81% for self, 77% for their children; 45% admitted to using traditional healers as a source for information about health. Most plants were home grown or available locally. Medicinal plants were used for respiratory infections, fever, malaria and diarrhoea/vomiting. HIV/AIDS was rarely treated with medicinal plants.
authors.affiliation: St Paul's Health Centre, South Rwenzori Diocese, PO Box 142, Kasese, Uganda. simon.sharon@gmx.net
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Challand
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003625:Data Collection; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000628:therapy; D005334:Fever / Q000628:therapy; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008288:Malaria / Q000628:therapy; D008519:Medicine, Traditional; D008875:Middle Aged; D008517:Phytotherapy; D010946:Plants, Medicinal; D012141:Respiratory Tract Infections / Q000628:therapy; D014454:Uganda