PJB-2017-88
Ethnopharmacological relevance of traditional medicinal flora from semi-tribal areas in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, Pakistan
Asfa Batool, Amin Shah and Ali Bahadur
Abstract
Medicinal plants are locally used for the cure of many diseases. The present study aimed to document the medicinal knowledge as well as medicinal flora of indigenous plants of native communities and represents the first ever ethnomedicinal study from Darra Tang, Lakki Marwat and Kundal, Mianwali. The ethnomedicinal information was conducted via crucial informant conversation, group meetings with herbalists, semi-structure interviews and local people having awareness about the remedial exploit of plants. Current research work describes a brief overview of ethnomedicinal scheme in the study area, by highlighting the vital indigenous constituent of medicinal plants. The rest of the study is dedicated to an investigation and documentation based on the 94 reordered medicinal species belonging to 40 families. The leading family Poaceae was signified by the highest number of medicinal plant species (11). Indigenous people most frequently used leaves of the plants. The greatest amount of species was used to treat gastrointestinal, inflammational, renal, urological and dermatological ailments whereas for diabetes the ratio was the lowest. Dominated medicinal plants with most use values were Rhazya stricta having (UVi=0.98) and Phoenix dactylifera (UVi=0.96). There was a significant correlation between the age of informant and used plant known (y= 0.1307×+26.756, r = 0.012) and known plants (y= 0.4043×+16.995, r = 0.082) number by informant. The present study exposes that this vast treasure of medicinal plant played a key role in the health maintenance of local communities from Darra Tang, Lakki Marwat and Kundal, Mianwali
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