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2.20 Ethnobotanical Study of Medicinal Plants in the North East of Setif
in Algeria
SERSOUB D., Djirar N., Kaabeche, M., Mihi, A., Zeroug, KH., Sedjar, A. and
Bentahar, A.
<strong>Abstract</strong>: Currently, in certain developing countries as Algeria, traditional medicine often calls
upon the use of plants or plants extracts to fight against the various diseases in particular most
current. Most of the population still does not have access to conventional medicine, the
safeguarding and the promotion of the medicinal plants as well as the traditional knowledge
concerning their uses is a health priority. Thus, the interest for the ethnopharmacology can
contribute original shares in the continuation of the development of the pharmacopeia of a
surveyed region. This discipline shares with ethnobotanical study of the interrelationships between
the man and the medicinal plants. It borders and integrates part of the field of the ethnotherapy
and implies the cooperation of the ethnology and pharmacology (J.P. Nicolas, 1999). Thus, the
ethnobotanical study and the ethnopharmacological development in the valley of Boussellam
situated in the region of Setif can be summarized in the following phases :Search for ground
associating various fields of study and being accompanied by data collection, botanical ,
phytochemical , and pharmacological study of the selected plants and information feedback on
the ground negotiated with the local population. It is also noted that the most plants used by the
users in the Valley of Boussellam belongs to the family of Apiaceae as Thapsia garganica and
the family of of Lamiaceae as Mentha spicata L and Mentha pulegium L .These species contain
essential oils which are used especially as carminative, antiseptic, stomachic, and bechic.
Key words: Flora, ethnobotany ,.
biodiversity, medicinal plants.
2.21 Ethnomedicinal Plants Used for Gynecological Diseases in Northern
Areas of Pakistan
Shazia Sutlana, Ghulam Mujtaba Shah, Sultan Bibi 2 , Mushtaq Ahmad and
Muhammad Zafar
Department of Plant Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad Pakistan. 2 District Head Quarter
Hospital Abbottabad.
<strong>Abstract</strong>: The present study was carried out in the Northern Areas of Pakistan to explore
medicinal plants to cure gynecological diseases by the tribal people. During the study interviews
were carried out in local community, to investigate local people, herbalists and women. The
medicinal data on 44 plant species belonging to 22 families and 34 genera was recorded during
field trips in study area for curing women ailments. Study provides information on botanical name,
family, local name, locality, disease, parts used, recipe and dose. Based on gynecological uses of
medicinal plants the study needs further phytochemical screening for drug discovery development
of wider acceptance.
Key words: Ethnomedicinal, gynecology, northern Pakistan.
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