PJB-2018-83
A QUANTITATIVE ETHNOMEDICINAL STUDY OF THE PLANTS USED IN MERA TURANGZAI AND UMARZAI, DISTRICT CHARSADDA, KP, PAKISTAN
Abd Ullah
Abstract
Extensive field visits and interviews were carried out in spring and summer season during 2015- 16 for collecting the ethnomedicinal data of the local flora of mera Turangzai and Umarzai, district Charsadda, KP, Pakistan. A total of 92 plants species belonging to 50 families were reported to be used medicinally against 48 different human ailments. The family Solanaceae (7 species) ranked the top followed by Moraceae with 6 species. Asteraceae, Brassicaceae and Cucurbitaceae have 4 species each. Herbs (62%) are the most dominant life form followed by trees (30%) and shrubs (8%). The most frequent used plant parts are leaves (33%) followed by fruit (22%), bark (8%), seed (8%), whole plants (7%) and flowers (5%). Limonia aurantifolia Christm. (0.73) has the highest Relative Frequency Citation (RFC) value whereas the highest Use Value (UV) has been recorded for Coriandrum sativum L. (0.85). The value of Person correlation coefficient (PCC=0.941) showed that there is a strong positive correlation between RFC and UV. The RFC value directly proportional to the uses of plant species mentioning by local informants (UV).
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