An Ethnobotanical Study of Medicinal Plants in Asgede Tsimbila District, Northwestern Tigray, Northern Ethiopia

Ethnobotanical Study of Medicinal Plants in Chilga District, Northwestern Ethiopia

“…Like the present study, the local community elsewhere in Ethiopia collects medicinal plants both from the wild and semi-wild environments 13 24 and Mesfin et al 27 in the humid areas, and Adefa 1 , Zenebe et al 35 , Yirga 33,34 in semi-arid areas of Ethiopia also documented an appreciable number of medicinal plants.…”

“…The study area contains high floristic profile of medicinal plant families compared to other semi-arid areas of Ethiopia 28,33,35 . Fabaceae is the most widely used family for medicine purpose.…”

Indigenous Knowledge on the Use and Management of Medicinal Trees and Shrubs in Dale District, Sidama Zone, Southern Ethiopia

“…Triangulation was employed to evaluate the cultural validity of information collected using different surveying methods (Mintsa-Mi Nzue 2009, Zenebe et al 2012. The data collected through semi-structured interviews and field observations were organized, entered, and analyzed using descriptive statistics like frequency distribution and percentage by using Microsoft Excel (Zenebe et al 2012).…”

“…The data collected through semi-structured interviews and field observations were organized, entered, and analyzed using descriptive statistics like frequency distribution and percentage by using Microsoft Excel (Zenebe et al 2012).…”

Ethnobotanical Study of Medicinal Plants Used for the Treatment of Human and Livestock Ailments in Dawe Kachen District of Bale Zone, Southeast Ethiopia

“…Due to natural and anthropogenic factors, the biodiversity as well as medicinal plants are being depleted in an alarming rate (Regassa, 2013). The current loss of medicinal plants in the country links with the missing of valuable indigenous knowledge associated with the plants (Zenebe et al, 2012).knowledge of medicine has been passed orally from one generation to the next by priests and medicine men (Getahun, 1976).But, due to the cultural systems are highly fragile, the skills are likely to be lostin the transfer process (Getaneh and Girma, 2014). Furthermore, the local communities encounter cultural changes due to development activities in areas where these communities reside and both the medicinal plants and the associated indigenous knowledge could vanish forever (Belayneh et al 2012).…”