PJB-2021-650
Quantitative description of folk traditional knowledge of wild plant resources from area of Kalri and Panjeri, District Bhimber AJK, Pakistan
Muhammed Ajaib
Abstract
In an era of chemical-based medicine, herbal medicine is a priority for primary health measures and treatments. Asia has a long history of herbal medicine and, hence, a great population in Indo-Pak region relies upon a system of natural cures and remedies. There is a large number of literature cited for ethnobotanical purposes but still there are certain unrevealed areas that contain a number of unidentified plants and their ethnobotanical uses. Local inhabitants use local plants to treat different ailments like asthma, constipation, dysentery, skin and stomach disorders, etc. .This paper introduces some ethnobotanically important plants from two regions of Pakistan. In the present study, the ethnobotanical data on wild plants of Kalri and Panjeri of District Bhimber, Azad Jammu Kashmir were collected during 2017-2018 by questioning local people, herbalists, and practitioners. Almost 100 plant species belonging to 41 different families were recorded: 55 herbs, 19 shrubs, 11 climbers, and 15 trees. For data analysis, different microstatistical tools were applied including Direct Matrix Ranking (DMR), Information Consensus Factor (ICF), Priority Ranking (PR), Fidelity Level (FL), Family Index (% age basis). The most dominant family of the area was Leguminosae, which consists of 12 species, followed by Asteraceae and Poaceae, which consist of 6 species. In fidelity level (FL), Melia azedarach L. has the highest value (13.66%), the highest ICF (0.5) for stomach ailments, and the lowest value (0.12) for constipation. DMR results showed that Acacia modesta Wall. stands first for being utilized in multiple purposes in which fuel has found to be the leading threat followed by urbanization, grazing, timber, construction respectively.
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