Phylogeny reveals non‐random medicinal plant organs selection by local people in Benin

Medicinal plants are one of the most affordable and accessible method available for the treatment of various ailments and diseases by the local people. In this regards, the study aimed to document the ethno-medicinal knowledge of plants used by the local people of Dagana district of Bhutan. Data were collected between June and November of 2020 using semi-structured interviews from the local people, following snowball sampling. The study documented 74 medicinal plant species, used for treating 30 different body ailments and diseases. Maximum number of species (14) was used in treating cut/body wounds and commonly used plant parts was leaves (30 species). Current study area was found to be rich in ethno-medicinal knowledge, but equally threatened with declining practices and management of resources. Thus, appropriate conservation of resources and preservation of traditional knowledge is required.

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Characterization and Quantification of Triterpenes in the Neotropical Medicinal Plant Souroubea sympetala (Marcgraviaceae) by HPLC-APCI-MS

Natural Product Communications ◽

10.1177/1934578x0800301118 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 3 (11) ◽

pp. 1934578X0800301 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Martha Mullally ◽

Kari Kramp ◽

Ammar Saleem ◽

Marco Otorola Rojas ◽

Pablo Sanchez Vindas ◽

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Keyword(s):

Medicinal Plant ◽

Ursolic Acid ◽

Betulinic Acid ◽

Plant Organs ◽

Immature Fruit ◽

Pentacyclic Triterpenes ◽

Wood Bark

A rapid, two-solvent, HPLC-APCI-MS method was developed to identify and quantify four pentacyclic triterpenes (betulinic acid, ursolic acid, α-amyrin and β-amyrin) in extracts of the neotropical medicinal plant Souroubea sympetala. Analysis of plant organs, wood, bark, leaves, immature fruit and flowers, indicated that the phytochemical distribution and quantity of triterpenes varies across the plant, with betulinic acid and ursolic acid the major constituents in the bark, wood, fruit and flowers and the amyrins the major constituents of the leaves.

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Study on Antibacterial Activity of the Bark of Garcinia lanceifolia Roxb.

International Scholarly Research Notices ◽

10.1155/2014/784579 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 2014 ◽

pp. 1-3 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Nilutpal Sharma Bora ◽

Bibhuti Bhusan Kakoti ◽

Barnali Gogoi

Keyword(s):

Antibacterial Activity ◽

Medicinal Plant ◽

Methanolic Extract ◽

Scientific Evidence ◽

Northeast India ◽

Local People ◽

Ethnic Communities ◽

Medicinal Value ◽

Endemic Medicinal Plant

Garcinia lanceifolia Roxb. is an important and endemic medicinal plant of Assam which has been used by various ethnic communities of Northeast India to treat various disorders like dysentery, dyspepsia, and biliousness. The plant is considered to be containing much medicinal value and is also eaten raw or made into pickles by the local people. Our present study has been focused on the evaluation of the antibacterial activity of the methanolic extract of the bark of Garcinia lanceifolia which may lead us to a scientific evidence of the use of this plant in cases of dysentery and diarrhoea.

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Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Associated with Wati (Piper methysticum), a Medicinal Plant from Merauke Lowland, Papua, Indonesia

Biosaintifika Journal of Biology & Biology Education ◽

10.15294/biosaintifika.v10i2.14303 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 260-266

Author(s):

Suharno Suharno ◽

Supeni Sufaati ◽

Verena Agustini ◽

Rosye H. R. Tanjung

Keyword(s):

Medicinal Plant ◽

Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi ◽

Mycorrhizal Fungi ◽

Arbuscular Mycorrhizal ◽

Culture Method ◽

Soil Samples ◽

Local People ◽

Piper Methysticum ◽

Root Sample ◽

Tract Infections

Indonesia is rich of natural resources, including the diversity of agricultural crops and other valuable plants. Many plant species used by local people for traditional herbal medicine and some other species used by drug industries. Among these, Wati (Piper methysticum, Piperaceae) is one of the medicinal plant found in Merauke lowland, Papua. It has been cultivated by local people because of it high value as medicinal and cultural uses. Wati plant is used to treat anti-stress, rheumatism, respiratory tract infections, tuberculosis, gonorrhea, headache etc. The habitat, including the microorganism in the soil plays an important role in the growth of this plant. Therefore, this study was conducted to identify the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) associated with the rhizosphere of Wati from Merauke lowland. Soil and root samples were collected from different locations and the colonization percentage on the root sample were determined. Our results showed that the number of the spores in the soil samples was 45-89 spores/50 g soil, while the colonization percentage on the root was 38.46-83.3%. Among 13 AMF morphospecies that found on the soil samples, 10 were identified to genus level such as Glomus, Clariodeoglomus, Acaulospora and Scutellospora, while the other were unidentified. Further work will be needed such as trap-plant culture method to get more information on the diversity of AMF associated with Wati.

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Ethnobotanical Study of Medicinal Plants in Hidabu Abote District, North Shewa Zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia

10.21203/rs.3.rs-338768/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Boja Tilinti Bose ◽

Yoseph Melka ◽

Tesfaye Awas

Keyword(s):

Medicinal Plants ◽

Medicinal Plant ◽

Indigenous Knowledge ◽

Plant Species ◽

Local People ◽

Ex Situ ◽

Preference Ranking ◽

Medicinal Plant Species ◽

World Population ◽

Significant Difference

Abstract Background: The world population use medicinal plants for treating diseases in forms of drug developments also traditional medicinal specially developing countries. The economic growth and cultural changes threaten the traditional lifestyle of local people. The aim of the study is to investigate medicinal plants and associated indigenous knowledge. Methods: Ethnobotanical data were obtained using semi-structured interviews, focus group discussion and market survey. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, informant consensus factor, preference ranking and Direct matrix ranking using Microsoft Excel and Statistical Package for Social Science Version 20. Results: Ethnomedicinal use of 136 medicinal plant species belonging to 117 genera and 63 families wereidentified and documented. The highest number of medicinal plants was used in midland kebele(74 species). Out of total medicinal plants 66 (48.53%) species were reported to treat human aliments only. Most of the medicinal plants harvested were herbs (37.50%), followed by trees (36.76%) and the least was lianas (0.74%). A Pearson correlation test indicated a positive and significant difference between age of informants and number of medicinal plant species cited, and negative and significant difference between level of education and number of medicinal plant species cited. The result indicates that there was significant difference between male and female informants in their knowledge of medicinal plants, and there was significant different between number of medicinal plants reported by key informants and household respondents. Cordia africana ranked first as a multipurpose medicinal plant. Agricultural expansion (41.96%) stood first as a factor threatening medicinal plants. Conclusion: The highest numbers of MPs were used in Sire Morose kebele (midland), but collection was not restricted only to their locality the move other kebeles to harvest MPs. In the study area elders have better knowledge of medicinal plant than younger and as people educate their knowledge on medicinal plants decrease.This implies that in study area there is potential indigenous knowledge but we are going loss this traditional knowledge if did not develop means transferring this to next generation. To support local people effort on in-situ conservation and ex-situ conservation needed

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Ethnomedicinal plants for prevention of cardiovascular diseases in Bangladesh

Bangladesh Journal of Plant Taxonomy ◽

10.3329/bjpt.v26i1.41920 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 26 (1) ◽

pp. 83-95 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Mohammad Zashim Uddin ◽

Atiya Begum Rifat ◽

Farhana Yesmin Mitu ◽

Tahmina Haque

Keyword(s):

Cardiovascular Diseases ◽

Medicinal Plants ◽

Medicinal Plant ◽

Plant Species ◽

Group Discussion ◽

Local People ◽

Medicinal Plant Species ◽

Terminalia Arjuna ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Ethnomedicinal Plants

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the major causes of death globally. The treatment of CVD by using modern medicines is very expensive. The present article mainly focuses the ethnomedicinal plants used by the local people for the prevention of cardiovascular diseases in Bangladesh. Information on the ethnomedicinal uses of plants was collected using semi-structured interviews with key informants during the year of2017 and 2018. Group discussion with local people was also conducted for the promotion of data collection. A total of 41 medicinal plant species was recorded for the prevention of cardiovascular diseases. These species belong to 30 families. The most frequently used medicinal plant species for the prevention of cardiovascular diseases were Terminalia arjuna (Roxb. ex DC.) Wight & Arn., Terminalia bellirica (Gaertn.) Roxb., Terminaliachebula Retz., Allium sativum L., Tamarindus indica L. and Alternanthera sessilis (L.) R. Br. ex Roem. Informant consensus factor (Fic) has been calculated to determine the agreement of local people in the use of medicinal plants for the CVD. Among the ailments categories high Fic value was found in case of antioxidant followed by heartache, high blood pressure and blood purifier. Comparing with previous research Hylocereus undatus (Haw.) Briton and Rose, Alternanthera paronychioides Klotzsch ex Koch and Lactuca sativa L. were seem to be newly reported medicinal plants for the prevention of cardiovascular diseases in Bangladesh. The plant species with high citation, Fic and Fl values can be subjected to phytochemical investigation to find new class of active compounds for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. The findings of the present study are very preliminary. Further long term studies are needed to validate the ethnomedicinal plants used by the local people for the prevention of cardiovascular diseases in Bangladesh.

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Iridoids content in aboveground plant organs of berry crops

Agroecological journal ◽

10.33730/2077-4893.2.2016.249047 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

V. Levon ◽

N. Skrypchenko ◽

Ye. Vasiuk ◽

V. Knysh ◽

O. Bezpalko

Keyword(s):

Medicinal Plants ◽

Medicinal Plant ◽

Bitter Taste ◽

Forest Steppe ◽

Viburnum Opulus ◽

Lonicera Caerulea ◽

Plant Organs ◽

Berry Crops ◽

Actinidia Polygama ◽

Unripe Fruits

A study of iridoid content in fruits, leaves and sprouts of untraditional berry plants — Actinidia polygama, Actinidia macrosperma, Viburnum opulus and Lonicera caerulea is presented. The highest content of iridoids is observed in the fruits, buds and leaves of V. opulus. It was determined, that their content in the bark and the leaves of the plants during vegetation almost do not change and reach 2–3%. Meanwhile the content of iridoids in the fruits varies in more broad bounds and depends on the phase of growth of the plants. So, it reaches 6.85% at the end of July, but it was equals to 3.75% at the end of September. The highest content of iridoids was found in unripe fruits of Viburnum. The fruit, bark and leaves of bitter-fruited form V. opulus have the higher content of iridoids compared to sweet-fruited. There were not any iridoids in roots of both forms of V. opulus. The presence of iridoids in the fruit and leaves of A. polygama and A. macrosperma in the introduction of conditions in the forest-steppe of Ukraine was found. Given this, the leaves of these species, especially A. macrosperma, can be used as a medicinal plant. It was found, that A. polygama leaves, which change its color to silver, have higher contents of iridoids compared to green ones (silver leaves — 0.22%, green leaves — 0.18%). In fruits of honeysuckle, which do not have a bitter taste, iridoids are not found, while, forms and varieties of L. caerulea with bitter fruits accumulate the largest quantity of iridoids. So, when using fruits V. opulus and L. caerulea as medicinal plants, bitter-fruited forms should be preferred.

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PROFIL FITOKIMIA EKSTRAK ETANOL DAUN ANTING – ANTING (ACALYPHA INDICA LINN) DI KOTA KUPANG, NTT

JURNAL KAJIAN VETERINER ◽

10.35508/jkv.v8i2.3075 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 153-163

Author(s):

Meity Marviana Laut ◽

Nemay Ndaong ◽

Filphin Amalo ◽

Larry Toha ◽

Herlina Umbu Deta

Keyword(s):

Secondary Metabolites ◽

Medicinal Plant ◽

Extraction Method ◽

Room Temperature ◽

Ethanol Extract ◽

Local People ◽

Phytochemical Screening ◽

Plant Family ◽

Local Use ◽

Acalypha Indica

Acalypha indica Linn is a tropical weed, grows annually in East Nusa Tenggara. The weed is member of Euphorbiaceae family, a largest plant family known as medicinal plant. The weed leaves were used by local people in NTT to treat wounds, diseases or myasis on their livestock. This study aim to investigate the secondary metabolites in A. indica L leaves as a scientific proven for its local use. The extract preparation comprises of several steps, i.e collection of fresh leaves, dry and wet sortation. The clean leaves were air dried in a room temperature for about 2 weeks before grounded into powder and subjected to extraction. The extraction method was maceration with ethanol 96% as solvent. The dense extract was evaporated using rotary evaporator and subjected to phytochemical screening. The result shows that ethanol extract of A.indica leaves were tested positive for flavonoid and tannin. Alkaloid, saponins, triterpenes and steroid were tested negative on the extract.

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Sesquiterpene from Myanmar Medicinal Plant (Curcuma comosa)

10.5772/intechopen.93794 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Khun Nay Win Tun ◽

Nanik Siti Aminah ◽

Alfinda Novi Kristanti ◽

Hnin Thanda Aung ◽

Yoshiaki Takaya

Keyword(s):

Molecular Structure ◽

Diabetes Mellitus ◽

Secondary Metabolites ◽

Medicinal Plant ◽

Traditional Medicine ◽

Local People ◽

Isolation Technique ◽

Curcuma Comosa ◽

Stomach Ache

Curcuma comosa (Zingiberaceae) is widely grown in tropical and subtropical areas of Asia, like Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Myanmar. In Myanmar, the rhizome of Curcuma comosa is called Sa-nwin-ga, and local people had used it as a traditional medicine for stomach ache, diabetes mellitus, and hypertension. This species produces secondary metabolites of phenolic and nonphenolic groups. Phenolic groups like diarylheptanoids and flavonoids. While nonphenolics are terpenoids, especially sesqui- and monoterpenes. In this chapter, the group of sesquiterpene compounds from Curcuma comosa starts from the isolation technique, followed by the elucidation of the molecular structure, and their activity tests have been discussed.

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