scholarly journals The Phytotherapeutic Arsenal in the Guerbes-Sanhadja Wetlands Complex (North East of Algeria)

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-54
Author(s):  
Belaidi Abdelouahab ◽  
Beghami Yassine ◽  
Francisco Maria Vázquez ◽  
Souilah Nabila ◽  
Bendif Hamdi
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Thymus Vulgaris ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Medicinal Species ◽  
North East ◽  
Wetland Complex ◽  
Medicinal Flora ◽  
Principal Species

This study documents indigenous medicinal flora - utilization, and was carried out in the Guerbes-Sanhadja wetland complex, between January 2018 and December 2020. The detailed information was gathered from users of medicinal plants mainly based on semi-structured interviews. A total of 102 plant species distributed in 48 families were found in practice by the natives for fulfilling their daily life requirements. The most frequently cited plants are: Myrtus communis L. (158 citations), Pistacia lentiscus L. (122) and Thymus vulgaris L. (97). Most of the medicinal species listed were herbs (68.93%). The phanerophytes (33.33%) and hemicriptophytes (27.45%) were the principal species used by the local population of the complex to treat different diseases. And finally, the dependence of the local population on medicinal plants prompted the establishment of a complex management plan in order to promote and protect them through their rational use and domestication.

scholarly journals Medicinal Plant by Batak Toba Medicinal plants used by the Batak Toba Tribe in Peadundung Village, North Sumatra, Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 510-525 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARINA SILALAHI ◽  
NISYAWATI NISYAWATI ◽  
DINGSE PANDIANGAN
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Curcuma Longa ◽  
Zingiber Officinale ◽  
Single Species ◽  
Psidium Guajava ◽  
Piper Betle ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Medicinal Species ◽  
Eurycoma Longifolia ◽  
North Sumatra

Abstract. Silalahi M, Nisyawati, Pandiangan D. 2019. Medicinal plants used by the Batak Toba Tribe in Peadundung Village, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 20: 510-525. Research of the medicinal plants by the Toba Batak ethnic has limited, even though the globalization and modernization resulted to degradation of the local knowledge. The objectives of this study were (i) documentation of medicinal plants used in the traditional therapies by the Batak Toba tribe of Peadundung Village, North Sumatra, Indonesia, and (ii) analysing the data by quantitative ethnobotanical tools such as use value (UV), cultural significance index (CSI), relative frequency of citation (RCF) and informant consensus factor (ICF) to determine the cultural importance of medicinal plants in order to develop a tool for their conservation. Semi-structured interviews with 41 identified respondents was the methodology employed for qualitative data collection. A total of 149 medicinal species of plants, belonging to 131 genera and 55 families, were recorded in the study which are used in the treatment of 21 categories of ailments. Plants with the highest UV were Eurycoma longifolia (UV=3.44), Curcuma longa (UV=2.67) and Zingiber officinale (UV=2.60). Eight species, namely Curcuma longa, Eurycoma longifolia, Allium cepa, Psidium guajava, Aleurites moluccanus, Piper betle, Citrus hystrix and Uncaria gambir were found to be having the highest RCF value of 1.00. Eurycoma longifolia (CSI=126), Curcuma longa (CSI=112) and Zingiber officinale (CSI = 105) emerged as the culturally most significant medicinal plants. Thrush and aphrodisiac use categories received the highest ICF of 1.00 each because the informants agreed of using only a single species for each of these categories. Eurycoma longifolia was used as an aphrodisiac whereas Averrhoa carambola was used against thrush. All these important and significant plants suffer the greatest harvesting pressure, hence their conservation should be given priority.

scholarly journals Integrated and sustainable agroecological production for medicinal plants: a proposal based on strategic management

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 51-100
Author(s):  
Jeferson Adriano e Silva Assunção ◽  
Ygor Jessé Ramos ◽  
João Carlos Da Silva ◽  
Nina Cláudia Barboza da Silva ◽  
Danilo Ribeiro de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Strategic Management ◽  
Plant Species ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Social Technology ◽  
Project Implementation ◽  
Medicinal Species ◽  
Lemon Balm

A management plan based on Integrated and Sustainable Agroecological Production (Pais) technology for the cultivation of medicinal plants, through a case study. The Swot-AHP technique was adopted to evaluateproblems to agroecological cultivation, indicating stages of the implementation work, before the physical structuring of the project, integrated with a participative social action with employees of the institution who revealed the use of 64 medicinal plants, highlighting boldo, lemongrass, and lemon balm, while 174 plant species were identified in official Brazilian documents. The lack of electricity and funding delays by funders are the most significant problems, while the space for work and gardening courses are the best potential. The integration of these data has proposed the implementation of teams for fundraising and project implementation, based on a list of medicinal species to compose the future structure made with Pais social technology.

scholarly journals Botanical coverage of the leading families of medicinal flora of Kazakhstan

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 00007
Author(s):  
Ludmila Grudzinskaya ◽  
Nadezhda Gemejiyeva ◽  
Zhanat Karzhaubekova ◽  
Natalya Nelina
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Pharmacological Study ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Medicinal Species ◽  
Large Families ◽  
Medicinal Flora

The work presents a comprehensive analysis of the phyto-pharmacological study of 4 fairly large families of the medicinal flora of Kazakhstan, which includes 148 medicinal species: Polygonaceae (42), Caryophyllaceae (41), Poaceae (35), Boraginaceae (30). The analyzed families contain 22 pharmacopoeial species, of which 2 species are included in the Red Book of Kazakhstan. The resource coverage of medicinal species is extremely low; stocks of raw materials were taken into account only for 10 species. The introduction coverage of medicinal plants of these families is higher than the resource one; 56 species have been cultivated, information on the yield of raw materials is available for 7 species.

An Ethnobotanical Survey and Quantitative Study of Indigenous Medicinal Plants Used in the Algerian Semi-arid Region

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 204-219
Author(s):  
A. Kefifa ◽  
A. Saidi ◽  
K. Hachem ◽  
O. Mehalhal
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Plant Species ◽  
Arid Region ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Ethnobotanical Study ◽  
Fidelity Level ◽  
Ethnobotanical Survey ◽  
Semi Arid Region ◽  
Medicinal Flora ◽  
Semi Arid

This paper presents the first quantitative ethnobotanical study of the flora in the semi-arid region in the southwest part of Algeria. The aim of this ethnobotanical survey in the region of El Bayadh situated in the semi-arid part of Algeria was to identify the main medicinal plants used by the local inhabitants to treat different diseases and to collect all the data on their therapeutic characteristics. One hundred informants of different ages were interviewed for this study (69 women and 31 men). Both quantitative and qualitative information were collected through open semi-structured face-to-face interviews with the local people. Data were organized and analyzed by descriptive statistics. The ethnobotanical data were analyzed using various important quantitative indices calculated for each of the recorded medicinal plant species like use value (UV), relative frequency of citation (RFC), relative importance index (RII), informants’ agreement ratio (IAR), informant consensus factor (ICF), fidelity level (FL), and family importance value index (FIV). In addition, a correlation analysis was performed to check the level of association between RFC and both UV and RII. It was reported that 44 useful plant species, belonging to 26 botanical families were used in the treatment of various diseases. The Asteraceae family was the most common family (6 species, 13.64%, FIV = 0.94) of all the medicinal plants recorded in this study. Leaves were the most commonly used plant part, accounting for 50.77% of the plants reported. Eighty-three diseases were identified and grouped into eleven categories, dominated by diseases of the nervous system and sensory organs (ICF = 0.94), which were treated with local medicinal plants. There is a clear dominance of Artemisia herba alba Asso. (Chih) in the three important ethnobotanical indices (UV, RFC, and RII).We found in this study five plant species having maximum fidelity level (100%) where they were used to treat only one disease. The Pearson correlation coefficient between RFC and UV (0.986**), and between RFC and RII (0.713**) showed highly positive significant association between RFC and both UV and RI of plant use in the study area. We deduce that herbal medicine is used in selfmedication of the local population; however, we also draw attention to the fact that the incoherent and limitless use of the medicinal flora constitutes a potential risk contributing to the degradation of the plant biodiversity of the area of study. These results may complement the database of the national medicinal flora and support research in phytochemistry and pharmacology to discover new drugs and approve ethnomedicinal knowledge.

scholarly journals Ethnobotanical Survey in Tampolo Forest (Fenoarivo Atsinanana, Northeastern Madagascar)

Forests ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 566
Author(s):  
Guy E. Onjalalaina ◽  
Carole Sattler ◽  
Maelle B. Razafindravao ◽  
Vincent O. Wanga ◽  
Elijah M. Mkala ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Anthropogenic Activities ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Therapeutic Effects ◽  
Useful Plants ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Ethnobotanical Survey ◽  
Medicinal Species ◽  
Forest Patches ◽  
Littoral Forests

Background: Madagascar shelters over 14,000 plant species, of which 90% are endemic. Some of the plants are very important for the socio-cultural and economic potential. Tampolo forest, located in the northeastern part of Madagascar, is one of the remnant littoral forests hinged on by the adjacent local communities for their daily livelihood. However, it has considerably shrunk due to anthropogenic activities forming forest patches. Thus, documenting the useful plants in and around the forest is important for understanding the ethnobotany in this area. Methods: In this study we (1) collected and identified useful plants utilized by local communities. Voucher specimens were collected following the information given by interviewees, (2) recorded the collection activities and the consumption methods through semi-structured interviews of the local inhabitants, and (3) performed a phytochemical screening to identify the active compounds and the potential healing metabolites of the medicinal plants. Results: A total of 65 people between 25 and 75 years old were interviewed. Surveys recorded 123 species used as timber, food, or medicine. Among them, 92 were forest species and 31 were ruderal species. Medicinal plants were mostly used to cure stomach ailments (71%), fever (33.3%), and fatigue (25%) with leaves (68%) being the most used plant part. Phytochemical analyses of 20 endemic medicinal species showed the presence of compounds that could be responsible for the therapeutic effects of the plants. Conclusions: Tampolo forest proves to be an important littoral forest highly utilized by the adjacent local communities due to the presence of a high number of useful plants which are mostly endemic to the region. Hence, our investigation assessed the importance of these species in the locality and this can be used for further study on ecology, conservation, and valorization of these species.

scholarly journals The ethnomedicine of the Batak Karo people of Merdeka sub-district, North Sumatra, Indonesia

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Endang Purba ◽  
Nisyawati ◽  
Marina Silalahi
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Ethnobotanical Study ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Preventive Healthcare ◽  
Medicinal Species ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Traditional Medicines ◽  
The People ◽  
North Sumatra ◽  
Species Being

Background: Ethnomedicine can serve as a platform for studying specific relationships between indigenous cultures and using medicinal plants, thus to identify new chemical compounds used as drugs.Objective: To document the medicinal plants and traditional medicines used by Batak Karo people and to provide information on the pharmacological properties of the most commonly used plants in the preparation to treat of various ailments especially preventive healthcare.Methods: The ethnobotanical study was conducted in Merdeka sub-district, Karo regency, North Sumatra, Indonesia. An intensive field survey was conducted to collect information on medicinal plants used by the people. Data was collected applying semi-structured interviews (individual and group discussions) and questionnaires.Results: A total of 124 plants species have been documented to treat various diseases. Zingiberaceae is the highest number of species being used as traditional medicines especially concoction of preventive healthcare. The study revealed that fever is treated using the highest number of different medicinal species (23 species).Conclusion: Batak Karo people in Merdeka sub-district have a rich local knowledge about medicinal plants. It is a need to extend the documentation of medicinal plants in the area and evaluation its biological activity as a basis for developing future medicines.

scholarly journals Ethnobotanical study of the use of medicinal plants in the indigenous Pijao community in Natagaima, Colombia

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 482-495
Author(s):  
Amilkar Hernando Mendoza Hernandez ◽  
◽  
Miguel Angel Niño Hernandez ◽  
Petra Chaloupkova ◽  
Eloy Fernandez-Cusimamani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Psidium Guajava ◽  
Ethnobotanical Study ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Medicinal Species ◽  
Important Species ◽  
Respiratory Problems ◽  
Mentha X Piperita ◽  
Stomach Pain ◽  
Gastrointestinal Problems

Semi-structured interviews (80) were applied in order to document the medicinal plants used by the Pijao indigenous community in Natagaima, Colombia. As a result, a total of 110 species distributed in 54 families were registered, Asteraceae and Fabaceae (9% each) being the most important families. Regarding the parts of the plant, the most used structure was leaves (46.7%), the main form of preparation was infusion (32%), and the most used way of administration was oral (77.8%). The value of use of the species by informants (VUis), the relative importance of medicinal species (IRE) and the index of cultural value of medicinal species (IVUs) were determined. The most important species according to their value of use were: Tamarindus indica L., Psidium guajava L., Mentha x piperita L., Moringa oleifera Lam. The most reported ailments were gastrointestinal problems such as stomach pain and diarrhea, general aches, headache, fever, swollen liver, and respiratory problems.

scholarly journals Use of Medicinal Plants in Urban Areas in the Municipality of Aliança of Tocantins

2020 ◽  
pp. 99-113
Author(s):  
Jaqueline Cibene Moreira Borges ◽  
Cristiane Mendes Lourenço ◽  
Livia Zanatta ◽  
Vanderson Ramos Mafra ◽  
Saulo José Lima Júnior ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Back Pain ◽  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Therapeutic Properties ◽  
Number Of Citations ◽  
Medicinal Flora

Research that takes account of popular uses of medicinal plants, also in urban areas, is important records to subsidize health actions more effectively and safely and maintain the local cultural heritage, as advocated by the national policy of medicinal plants. This study aimed to survey the use of medicinal plants by residents of the municipality of Aliança the Tocantins. In 2011, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 70 informants in the urban environment, Aliança of Tocantins. Most claimed to have acquired knowledge about medicinal plants with parents and grandparents, 60% and 25.7%, respectively. 62.9% of the interviewees obtained the plants in their backyard and 30% in the backyard of neighbors or relatives. The families with the highest number of species were Lamiaceae with 4 species (40%), Asteraceae and Malvaceae with 2 species each (20%). There were 82 therapeutic properties about the species mentioned, with a higher number of citations for "other indications" (25.6%), such as pain in general, back pain, malaise, dizziness, among others. The most used form of preparation was tea (81.4%) and the leaf was the most used organ (81.4%). Of the informants, 61.4% prefer to use home remedies instead of industrialized medicines. The informants, even living in the urban environment (82.8%), still know and frequently use the local medicinal flora, this being an indication of strong local cultural appeal and feasibility of encouraging green backyards.

scholarly journals Traditional knowledge about medicinal plant in the remote areas of Wari Tehsil, Dir Upper, Pakistan

2023 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Shuaib ◽  
F. Hussain ◽  
A. Rauf ◽  
F. Jan ◽  
M. Romman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Vascular Plant ◽  
Local People ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Medicinal Species ◽  
The World ◽  
Informants Consensus Factor ◽  
Plant Families ◽  
Local Plants ◽  
Medicinal Flora

Abstract Traditional medicine is cheaper and easily available to local people, to care for most frequent diseases in the Northern parts of Pakistan. Our study aimed at inventorying medicine from local plants, documenting their uses, and assessing their market value in 2015-2018 during spring, summer, and winter seasons. A total of 15 trips were made, 5 in each season. Semi-structured interviews with 165 inhabitant’s age range between 20-80 years were conducted, analyzed the data is analyzed using Relative frequency of citation(RFC), Use Value(UV), Fidelity Level(FL), Informants consensus factor(ICF), and Jaccard index(JI) to find the most frequent and well-known used species in the area. A total of 86 species belonging to 39 vascular plant families, 33 genera were documented as medicinally important. Family Asteraceae was observed as the dominant family among all the families with 10 species, the leaf was the most used parts and decoction 36% was the most preferred preparation type. Herb was the predominant life form (67%). The maximum UV (0.92) was demonstrated by J. adhatoda L. species, while A. sativum L. shows maximum RFC (0.58), the highest ICF value represented by diarrhea and dermatitis 0.92, and high FL value is recorded 100%. According to our collections, wild species were 45%, invasive species were 38% and cultivated 17% recorded, dicots species were recorded more 81%. Seven 7 medicinal species is being economically important and export to the local and international market of the world, whereas P. integrima L. species were the most exported species according to the local dealers. The investigated area is rural and the local people depend on the area's plants for their health needs, and other uses like a vegetable, fuelwood, fodder, etc. The current result of RFC, UV, ICF, FL, and JI shows that medicinal flora needs to be pharmacologically and phytochemically investigated to prove their efficacy. The documentation of medicinal knowledge is important to preserve this precious old knowledge before it is lost forever, due to technological and environmental changes in the world.

scholarly journals The Kazakhstan medicinal flora survey in a leading families volume

2020 ◽  
Vol 100 (4) ◽  
pp. 39-51
Author(s):  
Ludmila Grudzinskaya ◽  
◽  
Nadezhda Gemejiyeva ◽  
Zhanat Karzhaubekova ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Crop Yields ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Medicinal Species ◽  
Resource Potential ◽  
Number Of Species ◽  
Pharmacological Research ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
Medicinal Flora

It has been perfomed a comprehensive survey of botany — pharmacological research of 7 leading families of medicinal flora in Kazakhstan which combine 648 species (46 per cent of all pharmaceutical flora). The leading families encompassing the largest number of species are Asteraceae (196 species), Rosaceae (89), Lamiaceae и Fabaceae (по 78), Ranunculaceae (75), Apiaceae (69), Brassicaceae (63). The families to be analyzed include 109 pharmacopoeia species (some 47 per cent of all known species in Kazakhstan of official medicine) and 18 rare ones. Research on resource potential of medicinal species within analysed families has been extremely low. Out of 648 medical herbs raw materials inventory has been defined only for 88 that makes up some 3.6 % species of plants of 7 leading families, among them there are 50 species to be applied to official medicine. The introduction research of medicinal plants is substantially high than recource one. In the territory of Kazakhstan has been tested in crop about 40 per cent of the plants of families mentioned above. The features of farming techniques have been worked out only for 15 pharmacopeia species; the crop yields of medicinal plants in crop have been defined for 70 species of leading families.

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