Antifungal Effects of Methanolic Extract of some Medicinal Plants

Medicinal plants have evolved over the centuries as essential parts of African civilization and are widely recognized today as representing its rich cultural and scientific heritage. They are the richest bio-resource of drugs of traditional systems of medicine, modern medicines, pharmaceuticals, food supplements, folk medicines, pharmaceutical intermediates, and chemical entities for synthetic drugs. Medicinal plants have been the basis of treatment of various diseases in African traditional medicine as well as other forms of treatment from diverse cultures of the world. About 80% of the world¿s population still depends solely on traditional or herbal medicine for treatment of diseases, mostly in Africa and other developing nations