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Medicinal Plants in Sudan: Role in Animal and Human Health, Productivity and Poverty Alleviation
No full textThis paper had been presented for promotion at the university of Khartoum. To get the full text please contact the other at [email protected] has a wide diversity climate which is responsible for its varied
vegetation and very rich flora. Currently, according to the World Health
Organization, about 80% of the world population depends on traditional
medicine for primary health care. In Sudan as well as elsewhere, people
prefer to use traditional medicine rather than synthetic drugs, because
herbs can easily be obtained from nature and are cheap and have less
side effects. This review paper aims at presenting data on the therapeutic activity of some medicinal plants used in Sudanese traditional medicine
for animal and human diseases with emphasis on published data in Sudan
in addition to research conducted by graduate students at the University of
Khartoum. The review, also, highlights the toxicity of some plants that
limited their use despite useful active ingredients. The review includes
data on plants with antimicrobial, antiparasitic, hepatoprotective,
hypoglycemic and antioxidant activities, and many have direct impact on
animal welfare, food security and increase in national econom
Biochemical Effects of Methanolic Extract of Ximenia americana Leaves in Rats
No full textThis paper had been presented for promotion at the university of Khartoum. To get the full text please contact the other at [email protected] study was carried out to investigate the toxic effects of methanolic
extract of Ximenia americana leaves on albino rats. Twenty rats were
evenly divided into four groups A, B, C and D. Group A served as
control. Groups B, C and D were orally administered with methanolic
extract of X. americana leaves at doses of 12.5, 25 and 50 mg/kg body
weight (bwt), respectively, for 21 days. Clinical signs and mortality were
recorded. The rats were weighed at the beginning and end of the
experiment. Haematological examination and serum activity, including
total protein, albumin, alinine transferase and alkaline phosphatase, were
investigated at the end of experiment. Specimens from liver, kidney, heart
and brain were taken for histopathology. The rats receiving 50 mg/kg bwt
showed depression and paresis. Mortality occurred in the groups receiving
25 and 50 mg/kg (bwt). Significant reduction in the body weight occurred
in the group given 50 mg/kg bwt. Haematological examination did not
show significant changes in all the treated groups. The rats receiving 12.5
mg/kg bwt of the extract showed no obvious changes. There was a
significant decrease in total protein and albumin in the group dosed with
50 mg/ kg bwt in the third week. However, a significant increase occurred
in ALT in the groups receiving 25 and 50 m/ kg bwt and ALP in the
group given 50 mg/kg bwt. Haematology examination did not show any
significant change. It is concluded that this study generated a base line for
the safe use of Ximenia americana leaves in folk medicin
Role of Domestic Livestock Marketing System in Promotion of Livestock Exports
No full textThis paper had been presented for promotion at the university of Khartoum. To get the full text please contact the other Mustafa Ismail ElhagThe domestic livestock marketing system in Sudan is traditional and unsophisticated, managed and financed by the private sector. With the
exception of eleven livestock markets built in 1980s by Livestock and
Meat Marketing Corporation (L.M.M.C) and recently the group of six
markets built by the improving production marketing project, the majority
of livestock markets are no more than an open space with no installation
or facilities. The continuous expansion of domestic demand for meat and
the government desire to maximize exports earnings revealed that the
system has some signs of deficiencies and inefficiency and reached its
upper limit beyond which can hardly cope with further demand. For the
system to cope with the changing circumstances, the constraints imposed
on it need to be removed. Among these constraints are the traditional
method of production coupled with the nomad selling attitude and the
exogenous factors affecting its performance, the fragmentation of
domestic livestock market coupled with local authorities intervention, the
inadequate, physical infrastructure, absence of regulating laws, capital
starvation throughout the system, the present selling and buying methods,
lack of weighing scales, absence of market information system, absence
of a central regulating body, multiple taxation, high cost and difficulties
in transport and high feed prices and above all the absence of strategy for
development of the whole system. Lesson learned from the previously
liquidated L.M.M.C and the existing A.R.S.Co should be considered;
however, there is an urgent need for intervention and the government
should take a quick positive actions to solve these well-known constraints,
otherwise the ample inefficiencies in the internal market performance will
badly harm the producers, the consumers, operators and most importantly
will impede any effort to enhance the external competition necessary for
pushing the exports for the achievement of national goals
رفع نتيجة الطالبة يسرا يسن الشيخ محمد كلية الدراسات العليا
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The Politics of Literacy in the Nuba Mountains
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Behaviour of the Sudanese Arabic Verbal Stems in Sudanese Hausa
No full textBehaviour of the Sudanese Arabic Verbal Stems in Sudanese Haus
