scholarly journals Harnessing of local plant species by indigenous people of Hamirpur district for ethno-veterinary purposes

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 1898
Author(s):  
Anand Narain Singh ◽  
Chongtham Nirmala ◽  
Ram Chand Bhatti ◽  
Aman Deep Kaur ◽  
Siril Singh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Plant Species ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
The Body ◽  
Acorus Calamus ◽  
Traditional Medicines ◽  
Plant Parts ◽  
Organ Systems ◽  
New Findings

Traditional medicines have been playing significant role in livestock health care management since long especially in remote area. This paper is based on a field survey conducted to collect information for curing different ailments utilized by local people and tribals in the Hamirpur district, Himachal Pradesh. Total 541 households were interviewed involved as informants with fully prepared questionnaires; proper interaction along with group discussion. Information were collected from the selected sites regarding way to cure different ailments of animals which was further analyzed for the authenticity of data through different statistical quantitative indices. We found total 121 plant species belonging to 61 families that have been documented to be of common use for curing 78 different types of livestock. Total ailments were categorized into fifteen major categories based on the body organ systems of livestock. The highest number of ethno-medicinal plants were recorded from family Fabaceae followed by Asteraceae and other families. Leaves were the most commonly used part of the plant for the preparation of ethno-medicinal medicines followed by other plant parts. Achyranthes aspera, Acorus calamus, Pogostemon benghalensis are the most important plants used to cure different ailments on the basis of use value index. On the basis of Informant Consensus factor (FIC), diseases related to digestive system, reproductive system, respiratory and fever were considered as major ailments in the livestock. In conclusion, we found in this study that most of the plants are widely used to cure different ailments as reported previously by different workers. However, on the first hand, many new findings to cure different ailments of livestock have been found during this survey indicating need for conducting more studies to get valuable information from the local community which are not documented yet. It was also found that indigenous people have excellent information with respect to ethnoecological aspect. There is an urgent need to study and document the traditional uses before they are disappeared from the society or community and further study must be integrated with qualitative and quantatitative data to assess importance of plants for ethno-veterinery purposes. 

scholarly journals Age, wound size and position of injury – dependent vascular regeneration assay in growing leaves

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dhanya Radhakrishnan ◽  
Anju Pallipurath Shanmukhan ◽  
Abdul Kareem ◽  
Mabel Maria Mathew ◽  
Vijina Varaparambathu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Molecular Mechanism ◽  
Rapid Method ◽  
Plant Species ◽  
Plant Parts ◽  
Vascular Regeneration ◽  
New Findings ◽  
Stepwise Method ◽  
Experimental Approaches ◽  
Regeneration Efficiency

ABSTRACTBackgroundRecurring damage to aerial organs of plants necessitates their prompt repair, particularly their vasculature. While vascular regeneration assay in aerial plant parts such as stem and inflorescence stalk are well established, those on leaf vasculature remained unexplored. Recently we established a new vascular regeneration assay in growing leaf and discovered the underlying molecular mechanism.ResultsHere we describe the detailed stepwise method of incision and the regeneration assay used for studying the leaf vascular regeneration. By using a combination of micro-surgical perturbations, brightfield microscopy and other experimental approaches, our new findings show that the regeneration efficiency decreases with aging of the leaf, and increases with the nearness of the wound towards the proximal end of the leaf.ConclusionThis easy-to-master vascular regeneration assay is an efficient and rapid method to study the mechanism of vascular regeneration in growing leaves. It can be readily adapted for other plant species and can be combined with cellular and molecular biology techniques.

scholarly journals Medicinal Plants from Vettangudi Water Bird Sanctuary in Sivagangai District of Tamil Nadu, Southern India

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-140
Author(s):  
S Shanmugam ◽  
C P Muthupandi ◽  
V M Eswaran ◽  
K Rajendran
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Plant Species ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Medicinal Uses ◽  
Traditional Medicines ◽  
Water Bird ◽  
Plant Parts ◽  
Healthcare Needs ◽  
The People ◽  
Exploitation And Utilization

Most of the people depending on traditional medicine to meet their primary healthcare needs. Documenting the indigenous knowledge through ethnobotanical studies is important for the conservation of biological resources as well as their sustainable utilization. It is also necessary to collect the information about the knowledge of traditional medicines before it is permanently lost. Having all these facts in mind, the present study was carried out to document the plants used as medicine by the people inhabiting around the Vettangudi Water Bird Sanctuary of Sivagangai district in Tamil Nadu, India. The field survey was conducted in two villages situated near to Vettangudi Water Bird Sanctuary. The medicinal uses of 40 angiospermic plant species belonging to 36 genera of 24 families for various diseases and ailments were recorded by this study. The people inhabiting in the study area used 45 herbal therapies prepared from 40 plants to treat 27 different illnesses. Regarding the plant parts used, leaf was the mostly used plant part (51.16%) and extract was found as mostly followed mode (42.28%) to treat a particular disease. Attention should be made on proper exploitation and utilization of these medicinally important plant species. Keywords: Medicinal plants, Vettangudi Water Bird Sanctuary, Sivagangai district, Tamil Nadu.

Identifikasi Kearifan Lokal dalam Pemanfaatan Jenis-Jenis Tumbuhan Untuk Ketahanan Pangan Dan Obat-Obatan

MAKILA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-86
Author(s):  
Yustina Anggraini ◽  
Paulus Matius ◽  
Hastaniah Hastaniah ◽  
Rita Diana
Keyword(s):  
Plant Species ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Basal Area ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
Traditional Medicines ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Analyze Data

This research aims to inventory local wisdom in the management and utilization of plants as food and medicine by local communities. The method conducted in this study is the purposive sampling method that aims to inventory plant species, direct observation, and analyze data by calculating density and basal area. The results showed 243 individual plants, consisting of 53 types of trees from 17 families, and found 29 types of plants were used as food and medicine. The utilization of plants by local communities varies. People use plant species for various benefits, namely foodstuffs, building materials, handicrafts, and traditional medicines. Local wisdom in the local community is the knowledge that lasts for generations and has a symbiotic relationship of mutualism with the forest ecosystem at the research site.

scholarly journals Pemanfaatan Tumbuhan Obat Tradisional oleh Suku Mee di Distrik Kamuu, Kabupaten Dogiyai, Papua

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-27
Author(s):  
Sipriana Dogomo ◽  
Rosye H.R. Tanjung ◽  
Suharno Suharno
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Medicinal Plant ◽  
Traditional Medicine ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Plant Species ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Traditional Medicines ◽  
Plant Parts

Plants are widely used by the community as traditional medicine in an effort to maintain health. The purpose of this study was to determine the diversity of plant species used as traditional medicines and how to use them by the Mee Tribe in Kamuu District, Dogiyai Regency, Papua. The study was conducted in December 2018-July 2019. The method used in this study was a qualitative method with observation, interview, and documentation. The research showed that are 59 species of plants from 30 families that are used as medicinal plants by the Mee Tribe community. The community uses medicinal plants by: without processing 38 species, boiling 10 species, burning 7 species, and more than one way 4 species. The plant parts used are: stem (14 species), fruits (7 species), flowers (3 species), leaves (20 species), bark (2 species), tubers (1 species), and more than one part (12 species). The most widely used part of medicinal plants is leaves (33.89 %). Key words: medicinal plant, Mee, community, Dogiyai

Ethnobotanical Study of Traditional Medicinal Plants used as Anti-Psoriatic in Rajasthan

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 225-232
Author(s):  
M. Singhadiya ◽  
Isha Pandey ◽  
Vinod Maina ◽  
R. Pandey ◽  
Peddy Harikrishna
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Plant Species ◽  
New Drugs ◽  
Ethnobotanical Study ◽  
Plant Parts ◽  
Traditional Medicinal Plants ◽  
Ethnomedicinal Plant

The present study deals with 26 ethnomedicinal plant species belonging to 17 families used as antipsoriatic by the indigenous people in Rajasthan. The study also deals with types of Psoriasis, plant name, local name, family name, plant parts and mode in the treatment of psoriasis. The present study also gathered important information about traditional knowledge and the need to document, research and development of new drugs to fight against Psoriasis disease in Rajasthan in particular and India as a whole.

scholarly journals Ethnobotanical Study on Plant Used by Semi-Nomad Descendants’ Community in Ouled Dabbeb—Southern Tunisia

Plants ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 642
Author(s):  
Olfa Karous ◽  
Imtinen Ben Haj Jilani ◽  
Zeineb Ghrabi-Gammar
Keyword(s):  
Plant Species ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Ethnobotanical Study ◽  
Conservative Approach ◽  
Useful Plants ◽  
Plant Parts ◽  
Southern Tunisia ◽  
Storage Organs ◽  
Insight Into

Thanks to its geographic location between two bioclimatic belts (arid and Saharan) and the ancestral nomadic roots of its inhabitants, the sector of Ouled Dabbeb (Southern Tunisia) represents a rich source of plant biodiversity and wide ranging of ethnobotanical knowledge. This work aims to (1) explore and compile the unique diversity of floristic and ethnobotanical information on different folk use of plants in this sector and (2) provide a novel insight into the degree of knowledge transmission between the current population and their semi-nomadic forefathers. Ethnobotanical interviews and vegetation inventories were undertaken during 2014–2019. Thirty informants aged from 27 to 84 were interviewed. The ethnobotanical study revealed that the local community of Ouled Dabbeb perceived the use of 70 plant species belonging to 59 genera from 31 families for therapeutic (83%), food (49%), domestic (15%), ethnoveterinary (12%), cosmetic (5%), and ritual purposes (3%). Moreover, they were knowledgeable about the toxicity of eight taxa. Nearly 73% of reported ethnospecies were freely gathered from the wild. The most commonly used plant parts were leaves (41%) followed by flowers and inflorescence (16%). We reported the use and collection of non-renewable parts (underground storage organs and roots) for 20 ethnospecies. Interestingly, a comparison with the available literature in Tunisia and neighboring countries reveals 13 new useful plants as well as 17 plants with new uses and demonstrates an important reservoir of traditional ethnobotanical heritage that is still sustained by respondents stemming from the semi-nomadic lifestyle of their ancestors (74% of cited taxa). These data could set a basis for further phytochemical and pharmacological research and conservative approach of the most relevant plant species including endemic overused and endangered taxa.

scholarly journals Ethnobotany and Indigenous Traditional Knowledge in Brazil: Contributions to Research in Ecopsychology

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria do Carmo Pereira Santos Tito ◽  
Jonas Carvalho e Silva
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Plant Species ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Angiosperm Phylogeny ◽  
Plant Parts ◽  
Medicinal Use ◽  
Quantitative Descriptive ◽  
Collection Strategies

This paper is the result of an investigation of the flora and traditional knowledge in the conception of Javaé indigenous people from the Txuiri village located on Bananal Island, Brazil. The objective is to investigate the plants used by these indigenous people, their diverse uses and to understand how traditional knowledge is passed on to new generations. This is a quali-quantitative, descriptive and interdisciplinary survey, whose data collection strategies included the application of semi-structured questionnaires and collection of plants for cataloguing according to Angiosperm Phylogeny Group or APG III (2009). We identified 28 plant species, used for various purposes such as medicinal use, food, construction, craft and cultural, which were deposited in the Herbarium of the Federal University of Tocantins. Roots, stem and leaf are the plant parts most used by the community. The plants mentioned were most frequently found on the banks of the Javaés River and in the backyard of the residences. Significant traditional knowledge of these people about the plants are transmitted to new generations, through visual, orality and experimentation. Ethnobotanical studies strengthen research in ecopsychology while allowing research into the interactions between human populations and plants.

scholarly journals An Ethnobotanical Study of Medicinal Plants in Kelala District, South Wollo Zone of Amhara Region, Northeastern Ethiopia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mesfin Woldearegay ◽  
Yimer Assen ◽  
Abeba Haile
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Local People ◽  
Ethnobotanical Study ◽  
Amhara Region ◽  
Plant Resources ◽  
Traditional Medicines ◽  
Plant Parts

Abstract Background: Plants have a long history of being used for medicinal purposes, and a large proportion of people in the developing world still rely on traditional medicines to meet their primary health care requirements. Medicinal plants are the major components of the traditional health care system. The objective of this study was to record and document the medicinal plants and associated indigenous plant use knowledge of the local people in Kelala District of Amhara Region, Ethiopia.Methods: Ethnobotanical data were collected by conducting pre-prepared semi-structured interview items with 60 informants. Focus group discussion and guided field walk were also used. Data were analyzed using basic analytical tools and descriptive statistics. Determination of Informant Consensus Factor, Fidelity level, and ranking was performed. Results: A total of 82 medicinal plants distributed in 79 genera and 45 families were collected. Of these plants, 43 species were used to treat human ailments, and 33 species were used to treat livestock ailments and the remaining 6 species were used to treat both human and livestock ailments. The majority of medicinal plants were harvested from the wild environments. The family Solanaceae occupied the first rank with seven species followed by Fabaceae, Asteraceae, Cucurbitaceae, Apiaceae, and Euphorbiaceae with four species each. The most frequently used plant parts were leaves (42.2 %) followed by seeds (15.2 %), roots (8.1 %), and fruits (7.6%). Freshly harvested plant parts (72.68 %) were mostly used for remedy preparation than dried forms (24.74 %) whereas crushing, which accounted for (41.12%), and powdering (24.37%) were the most widely used methods of remedy preparation in the study area. Conclusion: Higher number of medicinal plants recorded in the study area indicates the depth of medicinal plant resources and associated indigenous knowledge of the local people. However, the expansion of farmlands by cutting trees heavily threatens medicinal plants and therefore, needs due attention. High ranking medicinal plants are good candidates for further research in drug discovery and development.

scholarly journals The Use of Ethnomedicinal Plants by the People of Bharat Pokhari, Kaski

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Suraj Raj Adhikari ◽  
Kusum Pokhrel ◽  
Narayan Dutta Bastakoti ◽  
Bimal Kuwar
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plant ◽  
Plant Species ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Aloe Vera ◽  
Centella Asiatica ◽  
Medicinal Plant Species ◽  
Ocimum Sanctum ◽  
Acorus Calamus ◽  
Medicinal Uses

Ethnomedicine is the study of traditional uses of plant by people who live in rural areas. The present study is the documentation of traditional knowledge on plant utilization by local people in Bharat Pokhari, Kaski and was conducted during February-July 2020 by using the following methods. Data about medicinal uses of plants were collected using the questionnaire, personal interview and group discussion. Voucher specimens were collected from informants and identified with the help of available literature and taxonomic experts. The plant species were then categorized based on their medicinal uses. During the study, 56 medicinal plant species belonging to 36 families were documented. These plants have been used to treat various diseases. The highest number of species (20) being used for gastro-intestinal disorders, followed by bone and muscular ailments (13), cold and cough (11) and respiratory system ailments (10). In the study area, the popularly used medicinal plant species are Acacia pennata Willd, Acorus calamus L., Aloe vera (L.) Burm.f., Azadirachta indica A. Juss., Cassia fistula L., Centella asiatica (L.) Urb., Ocimum sanctum L., Terminalia chebula Retz., and Viscum album L.

scholarly journals Use and Conservation of Medicinal Plants by Indigenous People of Gozamin Wereda, East Gojjam Zone of Amhara Region, Ethiopia: An Ethnobotanical Approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nigussie Amsalu ◽  
Yilkal Bezie ◽  
Mulugeta Fentahun ◽  
Addisu Alemayehu ◽  
Gashaw Amsalu
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Plant Species ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Ex Situ ◽  
Ethnobotanical Study ◽  
Semistructured Interview ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Plant Parts ◽  
Community Data

An ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants (MPs) used by the local community has been carried out from January 5, 2014, to February 15, 2015, in Gozamin Wereda of East Gojjam Zone, Ethiopia. The purpose of this study was to identify and document the use and conservation of MPs, along with indigenous knowledge of Gozamin community. Data were collected using semistructured interview, field observation, and focus group discussions. The collected data were assessed quantitatively using fidelity level, Jaccard’s Coefficient of Similarity, paired comparisons, direct matrix, and preference rankings. In total 93 MPs distributed under 51 families and 87 genera were identified and for each taxon a local name (Amharic) was documented. Asteraceae with 9 (9.68%) species and Solanaceae with 7 (7.53%) species were families represented by more species in the study area. Out of these MPs collected, 80 plant species were used for the treatment of human ailments, 24 species were used against livestock diseases, and 11 common plant species were listed in both cases. The most frequently used plant parts were the leaves followed by the roots. The major threats to MPs in the study area were agricultural expansion, overgrazing, fire wood collection, mining, and cutting down trees for construction and furniture. Therefore, there is a need for appropriate in situ and ex situ conservation measures.

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