Folk medicinal plant mixtures: Establishing a protocol for further studies

Gras, Airy; Parada, Montserrat; Rigat, Montserrat; Vallès, Joan; Garnatje, Teresa

doi:10.1016/j.jep.2017.12.014

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“…For preparations with more than one plant, we obtained the recently proposed index of taxon usefulness in mixtures (ITUM) [56], which is the quotient between the number of reports of one taxon in mixtures and its total citations, whether simple or complex presentation. This index indicates the exclusiveness of taxa in mixtures when the value is one or closer to one.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The most common pharmaceutical form does not change in respect to individual plants, tisane being reported in half of the mixtures, followed by poultice (14.29%). The informant consensus factor (F IC ) for medicinal mixtures data is 0.77, a value between Gironès district (0.56) [17] and the study carried out in two Catalan territories (Alt Empordà and Ripollès) (0.85) [56].…”

Section: Medicinal and Food Mixturesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Filling the gaps: ethnobotanical study of the Garrigues district, an arid zone in Catalonia (NE Iberian Peninsula)

Gras

Vallès

Garnatje

2020

J Ethnobiology Ethnomedicine

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Background: This study has focused on the Garrigues district, one of the most arid regions in Catalonia (NE Iberian Peninsula), which, in general terms, has remained unexplored from the ethnobotanical point of view. This area, of 22,243 inhabitants, comprises 33 municipalities distributed across 1123.12 km 2. The natural vegetation is dominated by holm oak forests and maquis called 'garriga', the latter giving its name to the district. During the last few decades, this landscape has been transformed by agricultural activities, nowadays in recession. The main aim of this work was to collect and analyse the ethnoflora of this area in order to fill a gap in the ethnobotanical knowledge in Catalonia. Methods: The followed methodology was based on semi-structured interviews. The obtained data have been qualitatively and quantitatively analysed and compared with other available ones. Results: Data were gathered from 68 interviews involving 101 informants, whose ages range from 24 to 94, the mean being 73.07. The number of taxa reported in this study was 420, belonging to 99 botanical families. The interviewed informants referred 4715 use reports (UR) of 346 useful taxa, 1741 (36.93) of them corresponding to medicinal uses, 1705 (36.16%) to food uses, and 1269 (26.91%) to other uses. This study has inventoried, apart from individual plant uses, 260 plant mixtures, of which 98 are medicinal and 162 food. In the present study, 849 vernacular names with 116 phonetic variants have been collected, as well, for 410 taxa. The informant consensus factor (F IC) obtained for our interviewees is 0.93, and the ethnobotanicity index is 23.47% for the studied area. Apart from plants belonging to the typical Catalan, Iberian or European ethnofloras, the present work contributes information on some plants from semiarid or arid regions, such as Artemisia herba-alba and Plantago albicans, much rarer in the ethnobotany of the quoted areas. Conclusions: The results of this study reveal the persistence of ethnobotanical knowledge in the prospected area and the importance of filling the existing gaps in the ethnofloristic sampling of the Catalan territories. The almost complete dataset, now including some arid territories, will allow us to carry out a global analysis and to provide an accurate overview.

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Filling the gaps: ethnobotanical study of the Garrigues district, an arid zone in Catalonia (NE Iberian Peninsula)

Gras

Vallès

Garnatje

2020

J Ethnobiology Ethnomedicine

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“…Forty-six percent indicated that they use herbal remedies exclusively to manage animal health conditions, 40% used both EVP and orthodox drugs while only 14% stated that they rely on orthodox veterinary preparations alone. The use of medicinal plants in the treatment of diseases of animals is exclusively has been documented by Gras et al (2018). Other recent studies in some states in Northern Nigeria also reported 15.31% go for orthodox medicine only (De Smet, 1998;Neils et al, 2008), the cost and non-availability of drugs or access to animal health facilities in the rural settlement may be a contributing factor.…”

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Medicinal plants used in ethnoveterinary practices in the Federal Capital Territory, North-Central Nigeria

Adeniran¹,

Okpi²,

Anjorin³

et al. 2020

J. Med. Plants Res.

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A survey of medicinal plants used in ethnoveterinary practices (EVP) was conducted in Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria to document the indigenous use of this plant in the management of animal diseases. Data were collected from fifty informants which included seven traditional medical practitioners and 43 pastoralists using a structured questionnaire. A total of 31 plant species from 25 families were recorded from the study area. The result showed that 86% of the pastoralist practiced EVP, 64% claimed high proficiency though 75% of the pastoralist age between 20 and 39 years were either low in proficiency in EVP. Also, 58% use EVP regularly while only 14% did not use EVP at all in treating health conditions in their herds. The percentage of plant families used in ethnoveterinary practices in descending order was Fabaceae, Cucurbitaceae, Poaceae, and Solanaceae. Momordica charantia and Carica papaya were mostly cited by the informants with the high relative frequency of citation (RFC), 0.70 and 0.62, respectively. Medicinal plants used in treating diarrhea were having common agreement by most of the informants with informant consensus factor (ICF), 0.90. This study provides plant species used in ethnoveterinary practices in Federal Capital Territory (FCT) for further scientific exploration.

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“…We name "use" (simplified for "use of the ingredient") to each single combination of ingredient -preparation -administration and pathology. Therefore, we focus on the uses of each ingredient, although another approach is to establish the focus on mixtures (Gras et al, 2018). Each use can be recorded once or repeatedly, thus "record" is for us each "use" given by an independent informant.…”

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Ethnopharmacology in the Upper Guadiana River area (Castile-La Mancha, Spain)

Rivera

López

Fajardo

et al. 2019

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

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Geographical patterns of medicinal ingredients (188 plant species, 20 animals and 12 minerals) Wetlands as a source of medicinal ingredients and foci of pathologies Phlomis lychnitis Cistus ladanifer Thymus mastichina Relevance of the different kingdoms and types ICPC2 & ICD 10 = Pathologies treated PESTICIDES Ardeidae Ardea cinerea Linnaeus, 1758 garza real EH Inland surface waters CRC feather direct apply para los escalabraos S00 Superficial injury of head S17 Abrasion/scratch/blister DER 2 garza CRC, DAI, HIN feather direct apply cicatrizante, para las T01.9 Multiple open wounds, unspecified A81 Multiple trauma/injuries SKE 5

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Folk medicinal plant mixtures: Establishing a protocol for further studies

Cited by 27 publications

References 31 publications

Filling the gaps: ethnobotanical study of the Garrigues district, an arid zone in Catalonia (NE Iberian Peninsula)

Filling the gaps: ethnobotanical study of the Garrigues district, an arid zone in Catalonia (NE Iberian Peninsula)

Medicinal plants used in ethnoveterinary practices in the Federal Capital Territory, North-Central Nigeria

Ethnopharmacology in the Upper Guadiana River area (Castile-La Mancha, Spain)

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