Abstract: | This article highlights the medicinal and economic importance of Strophantus which plant in Africa was used by hunters, criminals, native doctors and native magistrates. With the isolation of strophantin, the active principle of strophantus, strophantus became established in European medicine as a substitute for digitalis. Sections of the article: Introduction - Early history - Sources and botanical characters - Some native applications of some strophantus species - Constituents and pharmacology - Allied drugs - Strophantus Sarmentosus and Sarmentogenin. Ref. |