Wild Alliumspecies (Alliaceae) used in folk medicine of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan

Keusgen, Michael; Fritsch, Reinhard; Hisoriev, Hikmat; Курбонова, П. А.; Khassanov, Furkat O.

doi:10.1186/1746-4269-2-18

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“…In addition to the sulphur compounds found in Allium species, MAY-CHIEN and CHI-TANG (1992), reported the presence of 41 novel sulphur containing compounds in scallion. Allium plants are widely distributed over Europe, Asia and America, and they have been used for millennia as spices, vegetables and for the treatment of diseases (FRITSCH and FRIESEN, 2002;LANZOTTI, 2006;MICHAEL et al, 2006). The Greeks and Romans cherished onions as curative agents (COREA et al, 2005).…”

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Comparative evaluation of antioxidant properties of methanol extracts of allium cepa bulb, allium cepa bulb peels and allium fistulosum

Ola-Mudathir¹,

Abdul-Wahab²,

Moshood³

et al. 2018

Kragujevac J Science

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Comparative evaluation of antioxidant properties of methanol extracts of allium cepa bulb, allium cepa bulb peels and allium fistulosum

Ola-Mudathir¹,

Abdul-Wahab²,

Moshood³

et al. 2018

Kragujevac J Science

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“…The role of women in traditional medicine is similar in many Islamic cultures, where specific ethnomedicinal knowledge remains customarily a male-exclusive domain, as for example found by Chellapandian et al [25] and Keusgen et al [34]. Among our informants there was only one elderly woman.…”

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Medical ethnobotany of herbal practitioners in the Turkestan Range, southwestern Kyrgyzstan

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This study recorded and analyzed traditional knowledge of medicinal plants in the Turkestan Range in southwestern Kyrgyzstan, where ethnobotanical knowledge has been largely under-documented to date. Data was collected through participant observation and both semi-structured and in-depth interviews with 10 herbal specialists. A total of 50 medicinal plant taxa were documented, distributed among 46 genera and 27 botanical families. In folk medicine they are applied in 75 different formulations, which cure 63 human and three animal ailments. Quantitative ethnobotanical indices were calculated to analyze traditional knowledge of the informants and to determine the cultural importance of particular medicinal plants. Ziziphora pamiroalaica, Peganum harmala, and Inula orientalis obtained the highest use value (UV). The best-represented and culturally important families were Lamiaceae, Asteraceae, and Apiaceae. Gastro-intestinal system disorders was the most prevalent ailment category. Most medicinal plants were gathered from nearby environments, however, species with a higher cultural value occurred at distant rather than nearby collection sites. The findings of this study proved the gap in documentation of traditional knowledge in Kyrgyzstan, indicating that further studies on the traditional use of wild plant resources could bring important insights into ecosystems' diversity with implications to human ecology and biocultural diversity conservation in Central Asia.

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“…During the field-work, generally living plants were collected to be shown to the local people and were later planted in the national collection in Dushanbe (for more details see KEUSGEN et al 2006 Table 1). Methods for DNA extraction, PCR and direct sequencing of nuclear DNA ITS region were applied as described in FRIESEN et al (2006), and for chloroplast rbcL-atpB sequences (cpDNA) in KLAAS & FRIESEN (2002).…”

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“…Recently research missions were undertaken in different parts of Tajikistan in order to collect information about traditionally used wild Allium species (KEUSGEN et al 2006;KEUSGEN & FRITSCH 2008). These missions touched several areas which were not investigated in detail or were studied at other seasons during former research activities.…”

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Allium oreotadzhikorum and Allium vallivanchense, two new species of Allium subg. Polyprason (Alliaceae) from the Central Asian republic Tajikistan

Fritsch

Friesen

2009

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Two new Allium species were collected in the Vanch and Darvaz mountain ranges of western Pamir area. Despite inflorescence and flowers of A. vallivanchense R.M.Fritsch & N.Friesen sp. nova are similar to A. hymenorrhizum, the new species shows a widely extended (not clustered) growth form, fiber‐like decomposing to reticulate (not strip‐like) bulb tunics, shorter and finally somewhat pending (not strictly upright) leaf blades, relatively shorter leaf sheathes, narrow (inner ones bidentate) filaments, and narrower and mucronate (not obtuse) tepals. The flower characters agree well to other taxa of sect. Falcatifolia, but the leaf and bulb characters disagree. Preliminary molecular investigations using ITS as well as rbc L‐atp B sequences pointed to a position as sister group of sect. Campanulata. The latter section owns dissimilar characters of inflorescences and flowers. Therefore affiliation of A. vallivanchense to sect. Falcatifolia seems the better solution currently. Allium oreotadzhikorum R.M.Fritsch sp. nova belongs to the taxonomically unclear alliance of A. talassicum sensu Vved. (sect. Oreiprason) and is characterized by violet (not whitish) filaments, and cylindrical (not semi‐cylindrical), coarse leaves becoming tubular only when withering. The taxonomically probably incorrect application of the name A. talassicum Regel by Vvedensky is discussed. (© 2009 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)

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Wild Alliumspecies (Alliaceae) used in folk medicine of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan

Abstract: Background: Hitherto available sources from literature mentioned several wild growing Allium species as "edible" or "medicinally used" but without any further specification.

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Comparative evaluation of antioxidant properties of methanol extracts of allium cepa bulb, allium cepa bulb peels and allium fistulosum

Comparative evaluation of antioxidant properties of methanol extracts of allium cepa bulb, allium cepa bulb peels and allium fistulosum

Medical ethnobotany of herbal practitioners in the Turkestan Range, southwestern Kyrgyzstan

Allium oreotadzhikorum and Allium vallivanchense, two new species of Allium subg. Polyprason (Alliaceae) from the Central Asian republic Tajikistan

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