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The current interest surge in herbal medicines all over the world leading to the unregulated cropping of the Africa's bioresources, will pose stress and threat of extinction on the plant species while the traditional healers themselves are hopelessly being observed to advance in age and gradually disappearing from the surface of the earth. Therefore, the situation of both plant and human resource extinction must set a natural deadline for all of us the African pharmacognosists, pharmacologists, dentists, pharmacists and physicians to learn acquire document and use traditional medicine knowledge for the benefits of Africa and its people and indeed the entire mankind. Traditional Medicine as a major African socio-cultural heritage obviously in existence for several hundreds of years, was once believed to be primitive and wrongly challenged with animosity, especially by foreign religions, dating back to the colonial days in Africa and subsequently by the conventional or Orthodox medical practitioners. However today, traditional Medicine has been brought into focus for meeting the goals of a wider coverage of primary health care delivery not only in Africa but also to various extents in all countries of the world.

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Medicinal plants in African zone. 3. Medicinal plants of Ethiopia. 4. Medicinal plants of Kenya. 5. Kenyan Medicinal plants used as antivenin. Bibliography. Index.