作者
Inayat Ur Rahman, Farhana Ijaz, Aftab Afzal, Zafar Iqbal, Niaz Ali, Shujaul Mulk Khan
发表日期
2016/11/4
期刊
Journal of ethnopharmacology
卷号
192
页码范围
30-52
出版商
Elsevier
简介
Ethno pharmacological relevance
Ethno medicinal traditional knowledge regarding the uses of indigenous medicinal plants used for various human digestive disorders are mostly known to the elder community members. As the young generation is not much aware about such vital traditional medicinal practice because they rely on elders.
Aim of study
To document, accumulate and widely disseminate the massive indigenous knowledge of century's practiced therapeutic uses of medicinal plants by the local people living in this remote area.
Materials and methods
A total of 63 local inhabitants (39 males and 24 females) were interviewed through a structured questionnaire. The data obtained were quantitatively analyzed through the use value (UVi), fidelity level index (FL%) and relative frequency citations (RFCs), consensus index (CI%) and informant consensus factor (FIC). For novel uses all the plants were checked …
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IU Rahman, F Ijaz, A Afzal, Z Iqbal, N Ali, SM Khan - Journal of ethnopharmacology, 2016