AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO MEDICINAL PLANTS OF EAST AFRICA

312pp., colour illus., paperback, Revised Edition, Cape Town, (2010) 2022

First published in Kenya in 2010.

Guide to 136 East African plants with important medicinal applications. Covers Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

This revised edition updates the species descriptions, photographs and range of medicinal uses, and expands on the pharmacological properties of the plant parts.

Includes indigenous names of species in 92 languages spoken in the region, the medicinal uses of the different plant parts by drawing on traditional knowledge, recipes for the preparation and administration of remedies used to treat common ailments, and the active chemical compounds found in each plant.

Najma Dharani works at the World Agroforestry Centre in Nairobi as a Consultant and is the author of Field Guide to Acacias of East Africa.

Abiy Yenesew is Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Nairobi in Kenya and a programme officer for the Natural Product Research Network for Eastern and Central Africa.