Abstract

Background: Human Helminthic and parasitic infection are caused by soil-transmitted infection, neglected tropical disease, and Onchocerciasis. There are various ways of transmission for helminthic infection into a human host such as Ingestion of infective stage through faecal route, vector assisted transmission, direct skin penetration, congenital and contact of vector faecal with penetrated skin are the most common. 80% of the Ethiopian population has utilized traditional medicine as a primary choice of health care. The main aim of this review was to show Ethiopian medicinal plants used to manage helminthic and parasitic infections of humans.

Methods: Published article reviewed from databases search from Google scholar, science direct, Scopus, and pub med. The English language was applied for finding out published articles from the database by using the following terms anti-parasitic, anthelmintic, antimalarial, anti schistosomal, anti-intestinal warm, and Ethiopian medicinal plants. The tabular and diagrammatic presentation was used for clarifying and displaying findings from this reviewed study.

Results: In this presented study 343 medicinal plants were clarified for application of different human helminthic and parasitic infections. Having this leaf (24.27%) was the majority of plant parts used to treat the helminthic and parasitic infection when the diseases are encountered in the human host. Herbal remedies prepared with the aid of water accounted (38.50%), tea and coffee (10.40%), and decoction(10%) are mostly presented the way of plant preparation mentioned in the reviewed article.

Conclusion: Ethiopian population has higher experience in terms of utilization of traditional medicine as a primary choice of treatments. Fortunately, in this review, we try to present this community's experiences regarding human Helminthic and parasitic diseases. Therefore, it is an over-emphasized for the researcher to conduct a wide range of research on safety and efficacy on the traditionally claimed herbs with giving attention to certain human helminthic and parasitic diseases that already develop drug resistance.

Keywords: Anthelmintic; Antiparasitic; Medicinal plants; Helminthic; Parasitic disease