Introduction: Infection disease is a real publique health problem. The rise of resistance for
modern antibiotic in infections treatment imposed us order alternatives. The
study objective was to contribute in the knowledge of medicinal plants uses in
urinary infections treatment in N’Djamena (Chad) in view for amelioration the
traditional medicine in future. Methodology: The study was conducted in
the city of N’Djamena in the Republic of Chad that interviewed 60
traditherapists on using 11 plants for urinary tract infections treatment. The
methodology of this study consisted of the knowledge of medicinal plants that
used by traditherapists, and the plants identification was done in the
laboratory of IRED at Farcha. Results: A totalof60traditherapists
was interrogated on the plants used in the treatment of urinary tract
infections among the population of N’Djamena. The majority of traditherapists
interrogated in this study were male with the rate of 61.67% against female
with the rate of 38.33%. The age range of traditherapists was between 20 to 80
years, 25 (41.67%) from the age range between 30 - 50 years and 35 (58.33%) in
age range from 50 to 70 years. For the origin of their knowledge, the study
showed that 72% of traditherapists inherited the knowledge from their family,
while 15% inherited from the family and from training. The ethnic groups of the
traditherapists were Sara (16%), Maraba (12%) and Massa (11%). According to the
results, 18.33% were illiterates, 49% attended primary school and 33.34% the
secondary school. Our study found that 11 species of plants belonging to 11
families were used in the treatment of urinary tract infection and the Ziziphus spina-christi was the most represented. According to
traditherapists the Ziziphus
spina-christi, Cassia obovata and Euphorbia hirta were the most frequent plants used in the urinary tract infections
treatment. The parts of plants used in the treatment were leaves and bark,
grained leaves and entire plants with the proportion of 50%, 16.67 and
15% respectively. Conclusion: This
study revealed that the medicinal plants are variously used in the treatment of
infection urinary tract in the city of N’Djamena.
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