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| Title: | Ethnopharmacology of single herbal preparations of medicinal plants in Asendabo district, Jimma, Ethiopia |
| Authors: | Parvez, Nayyar
Yadav, Suman |
| Keywords: | Ethnomedicine
Ethnopharmacology
Traditional medicine
Medicinal plants
Ethiopia |
| Issue Date: | Oct-2010 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| IPC Code: | Int. Cl.8: A61K36/00, A61P1/08, A61P1/10, A61P11/00, A61P17/00, A61P25/00, A61P27/02, A61P29/00, A61P31/00, A61P31/02, A61P39/00, A61P39/02 |
| Abstract: | Medicinal plants have
been used to prevent and treat various health problems. Several African and
Asian nations are now encouraging traditional medicines as an internal
component of their public healthcare programmes. Indigenous medicines are
relatively inexpensive and locally available and readily accepted by local
population. Ethiopia has an enormous resource of plant species that are used in
traditional medicine. Among the 7,000 higher plant species that are known to
exist, about 800 of them are employed in the traditional healthcare and 60% of
pants are said to be indigenous with their healing potential. Majority of
Ethiopians depend on medicinal plants as their only source of healthcare. Vast
knowledge on the traditional uses of these plants is not fully documented and
most of the knowledge is conveyed from one generation to the text generation
through words of mouth. The survey
conducted during February-May 2006 was undertaken to explore the traditional
systems of medicine in Asendabo region of Ethiopia. |
| Page(s): | 724-729 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0975-1068 (Online); 0972-5938 (Print) |
| Source: | IJTK Vol.09(4) [October 2010]
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