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Through semistructured questionnaires, personal interviews with herbalists in communities surrounding the Barekese dam in the Atwima-Nwabiagya district, where the disease is endemic, were carried out. Thirty medicinal plants distributed in 19 families were reported to be used for schistosomiasis treatment in the survey. Information on the plants, including scientific names, common names, families, and the used plant part were recorded. The families Apocynaceae and Euphorbiaceae recorded the highest number of plants (14% each), followed by Asteraceae (10%), Loranthaceae (7%), and Rubiaceae (7%). In vitro cercaricidal activity of methanol extracts of nine out of the thirty plants was performed by exposing human Schistosoma mansoni cercariae obtained from Biomphalaria pfeifferi to various concentrations of extracts over a duration of 240 minutes. All the plants tested demonstrated time- and concentration-dependent cercaricidal activity. With lethality being set at &lt;1000\u2009\u03bcg\/mL, the cercaricidal activity in order of decreasing potency was as follows: Withania somnifera (LC50\u2009=\u20091.29)\u2009&gt;\u2009Balanites aegyptiaca (LC50\u2009=\u20097.1)\u2009&gt;\u2009Xylia evansii (LC50\u2009=\u200911.14) &gt;\u2009Jathropha multifida (LC50\u2009=\u200912.9) &gt;\u2009Justicia flava (LC50\u2009=\u200922.9) &gt;\u2009Anopyxis klaineana (LC50\u2009=\u2009182.81)\u2009&gt;\u2009Ximenia americana (LC50\u2009=\u2009194.98) &gt;\u2009Loranthus lecardii (LC50\u2009=\u2009223.87) &gt;\u2009Bridelia tenufolia (LC50\u2009=\u2009309.03)\u2009&gt;\u2009Zanthoxylium zanthoxyloides (LC50\u2009=\u2009851.94). Phytochemicals, including alkaloids, tannins, triterpenes, saponins, phytosterols, and flavonoids were identified in the plants. 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