Ethnopharmacological characteristics of Piper umbellatum L. (Piperaceae), a plant used in the traditional treatment of three neglected tropical diseases in Côte d'Ivoire
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Abstract
A recent ethnomedicinal survey, conducted in ten Health Districts of Côte d'Ivoire, revealed Piper umbellatum L. (Piperaceae) as a plant used in the traditional treatment of lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis and schistosomiasis. The present study aims to highlight the distinctive ethnopharmacological characteristics of Piper umbellatum. The aim was to identify some groups of chemical compounds by thin layer chromatography, to assay some minerals and finally to characterise the specific anatomical and micrographic features of the plant. Terpenes and sterols, saponosides, flavonoids and tannins are the main phytocompounds revealed. Magnesium with 748.3 mg/100 g dry matter is the most abundant mineral. Anatomical sections and plant powder revealed starch grains, secretory pockets and tectorial hairs that are responsible for the formation of various biological substances in the plant. These results add to the data on Piper umbellatum, a taxon much used in traditional Ivorian medicine for the treatment of three filarial NTDs (lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis and schistosomiasis).
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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