title: Medicinal Plants from the Ouaddaï Province (Chad): An Ethnobotanical Survey of Plants Used in Traditional Medicine.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Plants are the basis of all health care systems. This study sought to inventory the most used medicinal plants in the local therapeutic patrimony of the Ouaddaï (East Chad) through an ethnobotanical investigation.
  
  
  METHODS
  The inventory described the plant parts used, their mode of preparation, and their therapeutic uses.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Thirty-eight plants species are used for different purposes and diseases. The most used species belongs to the Mimosaceae (eight species), Caesalpiniaceae (four species), and Combretaceae (four species) families. The traditional medicinal uses, as well as the preparations, of these plants are diverse. The used parts are leaves (36.4%), peels (23.7%), fruits (18.2%), roots (10.9%), stems (5.5%), and other (5.3%). These plants are used to treat 16 different illnesses, notably amoebiasis (26.8%), respiratory infections (14.3%), fever (12.5%), kidney stones (7.1%), snake bites (7.1%), tooth decay (5.4%), and leprosy (5.4%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results obtained from this survey constitute the starting point of an inventory of local medicinal plants to be completed by phytochemical, pharmacologic, and toxicologic studies to allow good exploitation of the local medicinal flora.
authors.affiliation: 1 Institut Universitaire des Sciences et Techniques d'Abéché , N'Djaména, Chad .|2 Université Lyon , Ecologie Microbienne, CESN, Equipe Multirésistance environnementale et efflux bactérien, Villeurbanne, France .|3 Université de Yaoundé I, Laboratoire de Systématique et d'Ethnobotanique , Yaoundé, Cameroon .
authors.forename: Aouadalkarim Moussa
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Chahad
authors.affiliation: 2 Université Lyon , Ecologie Microbienne, CESN, Equipe Multirésistance environnementale et efflux bactérien, Villeurbanne, France .
authors.forename: Serge
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Michalet
authors.affiliation: 4 Université des Sciences et Technologie d'Ati , Ati, Chad .
authors.forename: Ali B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Bechir
authors.affiliation: 5 Université de N'Djaména, Faculté des Sciences de la Santé , N'Djaména, Chad .
authors.forename: Abdelsalam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tidjani
authors.affiliation: 3 Université de Yaoundé I, Laboratoire de Systématique et d'Ethnobotanique , Yaoundé, Cameroon .
authors.forename: Bernard A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Nkongmeneck
authors.affiliation: 2 Université Lyon , Ecologie Microbienne, CESN, Equipe Multirésistance environnementale et efflux bactérien, Villeurbanne, France .
authors.forename: Marie-Geneviève
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Dijoux-Franca
mesh_terms: D002596:Chad; D029764:Combretaceae; D019448:Ethnobotany; D007887:Fabaceae; D016488:Medicine, African Traditional; D010946:Plants, Medicinal