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The journal is an international, rigorously peer-reviewed forum for the rapid dissemination of scientific advances in natural and life sciences, with particular attention to traditional medicine and related evidence-based research.</div> <div style="margin-top: 11px; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 8px; text-align: left;"><span style="display: inline-block; padding: 6px 11px; border-radius: 999px; background: #EAF0F8; border: 1px solid #D4E0F0; color: #1b3b63; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 800;">Peer Reviewed</span> <span style="display: inline-block; padding: 6px 11px; border-radius: 999px; background: #EAF5EE; border: 1px solid #CFE6D8; color: #0c4a3d; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 800;">Science &amp; Traditional Medicine</span> <span style="display: inline-block; padding: 6px 11px; border-radius: 999px; background: #EEF0DA; border: 1px solid #DDE0C8; color: #2f425a; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 800;">Natural &amp; Life Sciences</span></div> </div> </div> </div> <!-- CITATION ANALYSIS AND VISIBILITY --> <div style="margin-top: 12px; padding: 13px 13px; border: 1px solid #EAEAD2; border-radius: 16px; background: #FFFDF7;"> <div style="margin: 0 0 8px 0; font-size: 17.6px; font-weight: 800; color: #142238; text-align: left;">Citation Analysis and Visibility</div> <div style="display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 10px; align-items: center; text-align: left;"><a style="display: inline-flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; padding: 10px 14px; border-radius: 999px; background: #EEF0DA; border: 1px solid #DDE0C8; color: #2f425a; text-decoration: none; font-size: 13.4px; font-weight: 900; line-height: 1.15; white-space: normal; max-width: 100%; box-shadow: 0 5px 12px rgba(15,23,42,.05);" href="https://ejournal.yasin-alsys.org/AJSTM/scopus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scopus</a> <a style="display: inline-flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; padding: 10px 14px; border-radius: 999px; background: #F4F1EA; border: 1px solid #E2D7C7; color: #3f4a55; text-decoration: none; font-size: 13.4px; font-weight: 900; line-height: 1.15; white-space: normal; max-width: 100%; box-shadow: 0 5px 12px rgba(15,23,42,.05);" href="https://app.dimensions.ai/discover/publication?search_mode=content&amp;and_facet_source_title=jour.1492470" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dimensions</a> <a style="display: inline-flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; padding: 10px 14px; border-radius: 999px; background: #EEF0DA; border: 1px solid #DDE0C8; color: #2f425a; text-decoration: none; font-size: 13.4px; font-weight: 900; line-height: 1.15; white-space: normal; max-width: 100%; box-shadow: 0 5px 12px rgba(15,23,42,.05);" href="https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=P8gSgxQAAAAJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Google Scholar</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 10px; color: #3b5068; font-size: 15.4px; text-align: justify;"><strong style="color: #1e2b3e; font-weight: 800;">Editor-in-Chief:</strong> <strong>Prof. Isaac John Umaru, Ph.D.</strong> — <a style="color: #1d4f8a; font-weight: 800; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57904659500" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scopus</a>, <a style="color: #1d4f8a; font-weight: 800; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Isaac-Umaru" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ResearchGate</a>, <a style="color: #1d4f8a; font-weight: 800; text-decoration: none;" href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FoqEVrsAAAAJ&amp;hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Google Scholar</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 6px; color: #3b5068; font-size: 15.4px; text-align: justify;"><strong style="color: #1e2b3e; font-weight: 800;">Publisher:</strong> <a style="color: #1d4f8a; font-weight: 800; text-decoration: none;" href="https://ejournal.yasin-alsys.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Darul Yasin Al Sys Foundation</a> in cooperation with <a style="color: #1d4f8a; font-weight: 800; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.fuwukari.edu.ng/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Federal University Wukari, Nigeria</a>.</div> </div> <!-- ABOUT --> <div style="margin-top: 12px; padding: 12px 12px; border: 1px solid #EAEAD2; border-radius: 14px; background: #F3F3DC; color: #3b5068; font-size: 16.2px; line-height: 1.86; text-align: justify;"><strong>African Journal of Sciences and Traditional Medicine (AJSTM)</strong> is an international peer-reviewed journal devoted to the advancement of natural and life sciences, particularly where scientific inquiry intersects with traditional medicine and biologically relevant applications. The journal provides a scholarly channel for the rapid communication of original research, scientific innovations, and evidence-based studies relevant to health, medicinal resources, and biological systems.</div> <!-- AIMS + SCOPE --> <div style="margin-top: 12px; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 10px; align-items: stretch;"><!-- AIMS --> <div style="flex: 1 1 320px; min-width: 0; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 12px 12px; border: 1px solid #EAEAD2; border-radius: 14px; background: #FFFDF7; color: #2a3b50; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.86;"> <div style="margin: 0 0 8px 0; font-size: 17.6px; font-weight: 900; color: #142238; text-align: left;">Aims</div> <div style="margin: 0; color: #2f425a; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-word; hyphens: auto;"><em>African Journal of Sciences and Traditional Medicine</em> aims to publish rigorous, peer-reviewed research that advances scientific knowledge in natural and life sciences while promoting analytically grounded and evidence-informed scholarship in traditional medicine and related biological fields.</div> <div style="margin-top: 10px; color: #2f425a; text-align: justify;">• <strong>Scientific Advancement:</strong> disseminate high-quality studies that deepen understanding in biological, biochemical, environmental, and health-related sciences.<br> • <strong>Traditional Medicine Research:</strong> encourage scientifically grounded research on plant medicine, phytomedicine, bioactive compounds, and traditional therapeutic knowledge.<br> • <strong>Life-Science Integration:</strong> promote interdisciplinary links among biochemistry, molecular biology, microbiology, toxicology, biotechnology, parasitology, and health sciences.<br> • <strong>Application and Relevance:</strong> support studies with meaningful implications for public health, medicinal resource development, environmental health, and agricultural or biomedical applications.<br> • <strong>International Scholarly Value:</strong> encourage clearly reported studies with reproducible methods and contributions relevant to both regional knowledge and wider scientific discourse.</div> <div style="margin-top: 10px; padding: 10px 12px; border: 1px solid #DDE0C8; border-radius: 14px; background: #EEF0DA; color: #2f425a; font-size: 15.6px; line-height: 1.82; text-align: justify;">Submissions should clearly state the research problem, describe methods transparently, present defensible evidence, and articulate a meaningful contribution to science, traditional medicine, or related life-science scholarship.</div> </div> <!-- SCOPE --> <div style="flex: 1 1 320px; min-width: 0; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 12px 12px; border: 1px solid #EAEAD2; border-radius: 14px; background: #FFFDF7; color: #2a3b50; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.86;"> <div style="margin: 0 0 8px 0; font-size: 17.6px; font-weight: 900; color: #142238; text-align: left;">Scope</div> <div style="margin: 0; color: #2f425a; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-word; hyphens: auto;">AJSTM welcomes original research articles and related scholarly contributions across natural, biological, health, and medicinal sciences, especially studies that engage empirically with traditional medicine and its scientific applications.</div> <div style="margin-top: 10px; color: #2f425a; text-align: justify;">• <strong>Traditional Medicine and Phytomedicine:</strong> medicinal plants, herbal formulations, ethnomedicine, pharmacognosy, phytochemistry, and evaluation of therapeutic bioactive compounds.<br> • <strong>Life and Biomedical Sciences:</strong> microbiology, molecular biology, parasitology, physiology, toxicology, biochemistry, and related biological or biomedical investigations.<br> • <strong>Health and Applied Medical Research:</strong> public health, laboratory medicine, disease-related studies, therapeutic evaluation, and evidence-based health interventions relevant to natural and traditional medicine contexts.<br> • <strong>Environmental and Agricultural Biosciences:</strong> biodiversity, medicinal-resource management, environmental health, biotechnology, and biologically oriented agricultural research.<br> • <strong>Interdisciplinary Scientific Studies:</strong> integrative research connecting natural sciences, life sciences, and traditional medicinal knowledge through robust empirical, analytical, or experimental approaches.</div> <div style="margin-top: 10px; padding: 10px 12px; border: 1px solid #DDE0C8; border-radius: 14px; background: #EEF0DA; color: #2f425a; font-size: 15.6px; line-height: 1.82; text-align: justify;">Priority is given to original research articles and interdisciplinary studies that demonstrate scientific rigor, methodological transparency, and clearly articulated implications for health, medicinal science, and evidence-based traditional medicine scholarship. Studies with practical, translational, or policy relevance are also strongly encouraged.</div> </div> </div> </div> <!-- ========================= END AJSTM HOMEPAGE ========================= --> Darul Yasin Al Sys en-US African Journal of Sciences and Traditional Medicine 1595-7942 <p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" rel="license"><img src="//i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/4.0/88x31.png" alt="Creative Commons License"></a><br>Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a <strong><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" rel="license">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a></strong> that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.</p> https://ejournal.yasin-alsys.org/AJSTM/article/view/11654 <p>Polyherbal formulations have attracted increasing scientific interest because their combined constituents may produce synergistic therapeutic effects. This study evaluated the effects of an aqueous polyherbal tea extract on sperm count, motility, viability, and testicular oxidative stress markers in male Wistar rats. Twenty rats were randomly allocated into five groups of four animals: a distilled-water control group, a carbamazepine-treated group receiving 20 mg/kg, a sildenafil citrate-treated group receiving 5 mg/kg, and two treatment groups receiving 5 or 10 mg/kg of the polyherbal tea extract orally for 21 days. Following treatment, the animals were sacrificed by cervical dislocation, and sperm count, progressive and non-progressive motility, and viability were assessed. Testicular tissue homogenates were also analysed for superoxide dismutase, catalase, glutathione, and malondialdehyde. The polyherbal tea produced no significant change in sperm count compared with the distilled-water and carbamazepine groups (p &gt; .05). However, the extract significantly increased progressive sperm motility and sperm viability while reducing immotile sperm, non-progressive motility, and non-viable sperm (p &lt; .05 or p &lt; .01). Superoxide dismutase and catalase activities were significantly elevated following treatment with the polyherbal tea compared with the distilled-water and carbamazepine groups (p &lt; .05). The extract and sildenafil citrate also significantly reduced malondialdehyde levels (p &lt; .05), whereas glutathione levels remained unchanged across the treatment groups (p &gt; .05). These findings demonstrate that the aqueous polyherbal tea extract improves sperm motility and viability without affecting sperm count, potentially through enhanced testicular antioxidant activity and reduced lipid peroxidation. The study provides preliminary evidence supporting further investigation of the formulation as a potential intervention for improving male reproductive function.&nbsp;</p> Dickson Onyenmulo Uwaya Christian Chukwuebuka Udemmadu Juilet N. Olayinka ##submission.copyrightStatement## 2026-08-03 2026-08-03 3 3 132 156 10.58578/ajstm.v3i3.11654