title: Plants of Zimbabwe used as anti-fertility agents.
abstract: Ethnomedicine has gained a lot of recognition in post-independence Zimbabwe and yet little research on anti-fertility medicines has been done. Information on plants used as anti-fertility medicines was obtained by interviewing women, men, traditional healers and traditional midwives in urban Harare and surrounding rural areas of Mvurwi, Seke and Chiweshe. The use of 31 species belonging to 17 families for antifertility purposes is described. This survey forms a basis to initiate a study into the efficacy and toxicology of plants used by Zimbabwean women as traditional anti-fertility medicines.
authors: Walter Sisulu University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Physiology, Mthatha, Republic of South Africa. crusike@wsu.ac.za
authors: Constance R
authors: CR
authors: Sewani-Rusike
mesh_terms: D003271:Contraceptive Agents, Female; D003625:Data Collection; D005260:Female; D005298:Fertility / Q000187:drug effects*; D006801:Humans; D008519:Medicine, Traditional; D010936:Plant Extracts / Q000494:pharmacology*; D010946:Plants, Medicinal / Q000145:classification*; D011247:Pregnancy; D015030:Zimbabwe
chemical_list: D003271:Contraceptive Agents, Female; D010936:Plant Extracts