Review on Phytochemistry and Pharmacological Aspects of Guiera Senegalensis J. F. Gmel (Combretaceae)

Adama Denou, Adiaratou Togola, Mahamane Haidara, Rokia Sanogo, Drissa Diallo ,Mamadou Koumare

Medicinal plants are the local heritage with global importance. They have curative properties due to presence of various complex chemical substances of different composition, which are found as secondary plant metabolites in one or more parts of these plants. These plant metabolites according to their composition are grouped as flavonoids, tannins, alkaloids, saponins etc...Guiera senegalensis J. F. Gmel. (Combretaceae) is one of the most important West African medicinal plants, often used to treat a variety of microbial infections.