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Ethnobotanical Survey of Medicinal Plants Used by Traditional Healers to Treat Diabetes in the Taza Region of Morocco

Type 2 diabetes is one of the noncommunicable diseases that is becoming a pandemic in Africa. In Morocco, traditional healers have started to use herbal medicines for the treatment of diabetes either individually or in combination with food. The current study aimed to perform an ethnobiological surv...

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Autores principales: Naceiri Mrabti, Hanae, Bouyahya, Abdelhakim, Naceiri Mrabti, Nidal, Jaradat, Nidal, Doudach, Latifa, Faouzi, My El Abbes
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Publicado: Hindawi 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8093047/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33986815
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5515634
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author Naceiri Mrabti, Hanae
Bouyahya, Abdelhakim
Naceiri Mrabti, Nidal
Jaradat, Nidal
Doudach, Latifa
Faouzi, My El Abbes
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Bouyahya, Abdelhakim
Naceiri Mrabti, Nidal
Jaradat, Nidal
Doudach, Latifa
Faouzi, My El Abbes
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description Type 2 diabetes is one of the noncommunicable diseases that is becoming a pandemic in Africa. In Morocco, traditional healers have started to use herbal medicines for the treatment of diabetes either individually or in combination with food. The current study aimed to perform an ethnobiological survey of antidiabetic plants use in the Taza region of Morocco. A total of 193 traditional healers were interviewed using a semistructured questionnaire. Data collected were analyzed utilizing the use value (UV), fidelity level (FL), and relative frequency citation (RFC) indices. Forty-six plant species belonging to 28 families were recorded for the treatment of diabetes in the Taza region of Morocco. The most frequently cited plant species are Salvia officinalis, Marrubium vulgare, and Ajuga iva. Lamiaceae, Asteraceae, and Fabaceae were the most reported families. Leaves are the most used part of plants to prepare drugs, the decoction is the preferred mode of preparation, and remedies are often administered orally. Interestingly, Cytisus battandieri, Urginea maritima, Plantago ovata, and Ziziphus jujuba were reported as new medicinal plants used to treat diabetes in the Taza region of Morocco. People in the Taza region still rely on indigenous plants for their basic healthcare needs. Further research should be carried out to validate the antidiabetic effect of the newly reported plant species. This validation can be investigated by the determination of bioactive compounds and evaluation of their in vitro and in vivo antidiabetic effects.
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spelling pubmed-80930472021-05-12 Ethnobotanical Survey of Medicinal Plants Used by Traditional Healers to Treat Diabetes in the Taza Region of Morocco Naceiri Mrabti, Hanae Bouyahya, Abdelhakim Naceiri Mrabti, Nidal Jaradat, Nidal Doudach, Latifa Faouzi, My El Abbes Evid Based Complement Alternat Med Research Article Type 2 diabetes is one of the noncommunicable diseases that is becoming a pandemic in Africa. In Morocco, traditional healers have started to use herbal medicines for the treatment of diabetes either individually or in combination with food. The current study aimed to perform an ethnobiological survey of antidiabetic plants use in the Taza region of Morocco. A total of 193 traditional healers were interviewed using a semistructured questionnaire. Data collected were analyzed utilizing the use value (UV), fidelity level (FL), and relative frequency citation (RFC) indices. Forty-six plant species belonging to 28 families were recorded for the treatment of diabetes in the Taza region of Morocco. The most frequently cited plant species are Salvia officinalis, Marrubium vulgare, and Ajuga iva. Lamiaceae, Asteraceae, and Fabaceae were the most reported families. Leaves are the most used part of plants to prepare drugs, the decoction is the preferred mode of preparation, and remedies are often administered orally. Interestingly, Cytisus battandieri, Urginea maritima, Plantago ovata, and Ziziphus jujuba were reported as new medicinal plants used to treat diabetes in the Taza region of Morocco. People in the Taza region still rely on indigenous plants for their basic healthcare needs. Further research should be carried out to validate the antidiabetic effect of the newly reported plant species. This validation can be investigated by the determination of bioactive compounds and evaluation of their in vitro and in vivo antidiabetic effects. Hindawi 2021-04-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8093047/ /pubmed/33986815 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5515634 Text en Copyright © 2021 Hanae Naceiri Mrabti et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Naceiri Mrabti, Hanae
Bouyahya, Abdelhakim
Naceiri Mrabti, Nidal
Jaradat, Nidal
Doudach, Latifa
Faouzi, My El Abbes
Ethnobotanical Survey of Medicinal Plants Used by Traditional Healers to Treat Diabetes in the Taza Region of Morocco
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title_full Ethnobotanical Survey of Medicinal Plants Used by Traditional Healers to Treat Diabetes in the Taza Region of Morocco
title_fullStr Ethnobotanical Survey of Medicinal Plants Used by Traditional Healers to Treat Diabetes in the Taza Region of Morocco
title_full_unstemmed Ethnobotanical Survey of Medicinal Plants Used by Traditional Healers to Treat Diabetes in the Taza Region of Morocco
title_short Ethnobotanical Survey of Medicinal Plants Used by Traditional Healers to Treat Diabetes in the Taza Region of Morocco
title_sort ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plants used by traditional healers to treat diabetes in the taza region of morocco
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8093047/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33986815
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5515634
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