Cargando…
Ethnomedicinal study of medicinal plants used by Mizo tribes in Champhai district of Mizoram, India
BACKGROUND: Medicinal plants have been used countless times for curing diseases mainly in developing countries. They are easily available with little to no side effects when compared to modern medicine. This manuscript encompasses information on ethnomedicinal plants in Champhai district, located in...
Autores principales: | , , , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
BioMed Central
2022
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8944157/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35331291 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13002-022-00520-0 |
_version_ | 1784673661520707584 |
---|---|
author | Laldingliani, T. B. C. Thangjam, Nurpen Meitei Zomuanawma, R. Bawitlung, Laldingngheti Pal, Anirban Kumar, Awadhesh |
author_facet | Laldingliani, T. B. C. Thangjam, Nurpen Meitei Zomuanawma, R. Bawitlung, Laldingngheti Pal, Anirban Kumar, Awadhesh |
author_sort | Laldingliani, T. B. C. |
collection | PubMed |
description | BACKGROUND: Medicinal plants have been used countless times for curing diseases mainly in developing countries. They are easily available with little to no side effects when compared to modern medicine. This manuscript encompasses information on ethnomedicinal plants in Champhai district, located in the North East Region (NER) of India. The region lies within Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot. This study will be the first quantitative report on the ethnomedicinal plants used by the local tribes of this region. Knowledge of medicinal plants is mostly acquired by word of mouth, and the knowledge is dying among the local youths with the prevalence of modern medicine. Hence, there is urgency in deciphering and recording such information. METHODS: Information was gathered through interviews with 200 informants across 15 villages of the Champhai district. From the data obtained, we evaluate indices such as used report (UR), frequency of citation (FC), informant consensus factor (F(ic)), cultural values (CVs) and relative importance (RI) for all the plant species. Secondary data were obtained from scientific databases such as Pubmed, Sci Finder and Science Direct. The scientific name of the plants was matched and arranged in consultation with the working list of all plant species (http://www.theplantlist.org). RESULTS: Totally, 93 plant species from 53 families and 85 genera were recorded. The most common families are Euphorbiaceae and Asteraceae with six and five species representatives, respectively. Leaves were the most frequently used part of a plant and were usually used in the form of decoction. Curcuma longa has the most cultural value (27.28 CVs) with the highest used report (136 FC), and the highest RI value was Phyllanthus emblica. The main illness categories as per Frequency of citation were muscle/bone problem (0.962 F(ic)), gastro-intestinal disease (0.956 F(ic)) and skin care (0.953 F(ic)). CONCLUSION: The people of Mizoram living in the Champhai district have an immense knowledge of ethnomedicinal plants. There were no side effects recorded for consuming ethnomedicinal plants. We observed that there is a scope of scientific validation of 10 plant species for their pharmacological activity and 13 species for the phytochemical characterisation or isolation of the phytochemicals. This might pave the path for developing a scientifically validated botanical or lead to semisyntheic derivatives intended for modern medicine. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-8944157 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2022 |
publisher | BioMed Central |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-89441572022-03-24 Ethnomedicinal study of medicinal plants used by Mizo tribes in Champhai district of Mizoram, India Laldingliani, T. B. C. Thangjam, Nurpen Meitei Zomuanawma, R. Bawitlung, Laldingngheti Pal, Anirban Kumar, Awadhesh J Ethnobiol Ethnomed Research BACKGROUND: Medicinal plants have been used countless times for curing diseases mainly in developing countries. They are easily available with little to no side effects when compared to modern medicine. This manuscript encompasses information on ethnomedicinal plants in Champhai district, located in the North East Region (NER) of India. The region lies within Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot. This study will be the first quantitative report on the ethnomedicinal plants used by the local tribes of this region. Knowledge of medicinal plants is mostly acquired by word of mouth, and the knowledge is dying among the local youths with the prevalence of modern medicine. Hence, there is urgency in deciphering and recording such information. METHODS: Information was gathered through interviews with 200 informants across 15 villages of the Champhai district. From the data obtained, we evaluate indices such as used report (UR), frequency of citation (FC), informant consensus factor (F(ic)), cultural values (CVs) and relative importance (RI) for all the plant species. Secondary data were obtained from scientific databases such as Pubmed, Sci Finder and Science Direct. The scientific name of the plants was matched and arranged in consultation with the working list of all plant species (http://www.theplantlist.org). RESULTS: Totally, 93 plant species from 53 families and 85 genera were recorded. The most common families are Euphorbiaceae and Asteraceae with six and five species representatives, respectively. Leaves were the most frequently used part of a plant and were usually used in the form of decoction. Curcuma longa has the most cultural value (27.28 CVs) with the highest used report (136 FC), and the highest RI value was Phyllanthus emblica. The main illness categories as per Frequency of citation were muscle/bone problem (0.962 F(ic)), gastro-intestinal disease (0.956 F(ic)) and skin care (0.953 F(ic)). CONCLUSION: The people of Mizoram living in the Champhai district have an immense knowledge of ethnomedicinal plants. There were no side effects recorded for consuming ethnomedicinal plants. We observed that there is a scope of scientific validation of 10 plant species for their pharmacological activity and 13 species for the phytochemical characterisation or isolation of the phytochemicals. This might pave the path for developing a scientifically validated botanical or lead to semisyntheic derivatives intended for modern medicine. BioMed Central 2022-03-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8944157/ /pubmed/35331291 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13002-022-00520-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Laldingliani, T. B. C. Thangjam, Nurpen Meitei Zomuanawma, R. Bawitlung, Laldingngheti Pal, Anirban Kumar, Awadhesh Ethnomedicinal study of medicinal plants used by Mizo tribes in Champhai district of Mizoram, India |
title | Ethnomedicinal study of medicinal plants used by Mizo tribes in Champhai district of Mizoram, India |
title_full | Ethnomedicinal study of medicinal plants used by Mizo tribes in Champhai district of Mizoram, India |
title_fullStr | Ethnomedicinal study of medicinal plants used by Mizo tribes in Champhai district of Mizoram, India |
title_full_unstemmed | Ethnomedicinal study of medicinal plants used by Mizo tribes in Champhai district of Mizoram, India |
title_short | Ethnomedicinal study of medicinal plants used by Mizo tribes in Champhai district of Mizoram, India |
title_sort | ethnomedicinal study of medicinal plants used by mizo tribes in champhai district of mizoram, india |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8944157/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35331291 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13002-022-00520-0 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT laldinglianitbc ethnomedicinalstudyofmedicinalplantsusedbymizotribesinchamphaidistrictofmizoramindia AT thangjamnurpenmeitei ethnomedicinalstudyofmedicinalplantsusedbymizotribesinchamphaidistrictofmizoramindia AT zomuanawmar ethnomedicinalstudyofmedicinalplantsusedbymizotribesinchamphaidistrictofmizoramindia AT bawitlunglaldingngheti ethnomedicinalstudyofmedicinalplantsusedbymizotribesinchamphaidistrictofmizoramindia AT palanirban ethnomedicinalstudyofmedicinalplantsusedbymizotribesinchamphaidistrictofmizoramindia AT kumarawadhesh ethnomedicinalstudyofmedicinalplantsusedbymizotribesinchamphaidistrictofmizoramindia |