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Ethnobotanical study of Mandi Ahmad Abad, District Okara, Pakistan

This study hypothesized that native people have unique traditional knowledge of plant resources in the rural areas and basic objective was the documentation of this valuable inheritance. Ethnobotanical data was collected from a remote rural area of Mandi Ahmad Abad, Union council number NA-144 Tehsi...

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Autores principales: Munir, Mubashrah, Sadia, Sehrish, Khan, Adnan, Rahim, Bakht Zareen, Gagosh Nayyar, Brian, Ahmad, Khawaja Shafique, Khan, Arshad Mahmood, Fatima, Ishrat, Qureshi, Rahmatullah
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8989321/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35389994
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265125
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author Munir, Mubashrah
Sadia, Sehrish
Khan, Adnan
Rahim, Bakht Zareen
Gagosh Nayyar, Brian
Ahmad, Khawaja Shafique
Khan, Arshad Mahmood
Fatima, Ishrat
Qureshi, Rahmatullah
author_facet Munir, Mubashrah
Sadia, Sehrish
Khan, Adnan
Rahim, Bakht Zareen
Gagosh Nayyar, Brian
Ahmad, Khawaja Shafique
Khan, Arshad Mahmood
Fatima, Ishrat
Qureshi, Rahmatullah
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description This study hypothesized that native people have unique traditional knowledge of plant resources in the rural areas and basic objective was the documentation of this valuable inheritance. Ethnobotanical data was collected from a remote rural area of Mandi Ahmad Abad, Union council number NA-144 Tehsil Depalpur District Okara, Pakistan. A total of 94 informants were randomly interviewed to collect data about local names of plant species, mode of administration, recipes and ailments, and ethnobotanical uses through semi-structured questionnaire, interviews and group discussion methods. The collected data was statistically analyzed by calculating use value (UV), frequency of citation (FC), relative frequency of citation (RFC), factor of informant consensus (FIC), family importance value, and relative importance (RI). This study is also compared with ethnobotanical literature by using Jaccard’s index (JI) for similarity analysis. A total of 126 species belonging to 52 families were documented. The Poaceae (13spp.), Leguminosae (12spp.), Solanaceae (10spp.) and Cucurbitaceae (10spp.) were dominant families. Highest used value (UV = 0.22) was obtained for Azadirachta indica. The minimum used value (UV) was showed by Alhagi maurorum, Eclipta prostrata, Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, Solanum virginianum and Trianthema potulacastrum (UV = 0.01). Hepatitis, stomach ulcer, bowel disorders, urinary problems, psoriasis, cancer, and leucoderma were the most treated ailments with ICF value of 1, followed by leucorrhea (ICF: 0.89), and vomiting (ICF: 0.86). The highest Jaccard’s similarity index value (JI = 0.329) showed that plant species reported in our study was more similar with Arid regions of Northern Punjab, Pakistan. This novel ethnobotanical report concluded that traditional knowledge about use of medicinal plants is decreasing due to allopathic medicines. Immediate steps should be taken for conservation and documentation of traditional knowledge of plants especially those having medicinal properties.
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spelling pubmed-89893212022-04-08 Ethnobotanical study of Mandi Ahmad Abad, District Okara, Pakistan Munir, Mubashrah Sadia, Sehrish Khan, Adnan Rahim, Bakht Zareen Gagosh Nayyar, Brian Ahmad, Khawaja Shafique Khan, Arshad Mahmood Fatima, Ishrat Qureshi, Rahmatullah PLoS One Research Article This study hypothesized that native people have unique traditional knowledge of plant resources in the rural areas and basic objective was the documentation of this valuable inheritance. Ethnobotanical data was collected from a remote rural area of Mandi Ahmad Abad, Union council number NA-144 Tehsil Depalpur District Okara, Pakistan. A total of 94 informants were randomly interviewed to collect data about local names of plant species, mode of administration, recipes and ailments, and ethnobotanical uses through semi-structured questionnaire, interviews and group discussion methods. The collected data was statistically analyzed by calculating use value (UV), frequency of citation (FC), relative frequency of citation (RFC), factor of informant consensus (FIC), family importance value, and relative importance (RI). This study is also compared with ethnobotanical literature by using Jaccard’s index (JI) for similarity analysis. A total of 126 species belonging to 52 families were documented. The Poaceae (13spp.), Leguminosae (12spp.), Solanaceae (10spp.) and Cucurbitaceae (10spp.) were dominant families. Highest used value (UV = 0.22) was obtained for Azadirachta indica. The minimum used value (UV) was showed by Alhagi maurorum, Eclipta prostrata, Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, Solanum virginianum and Trianthema potulacastrum (UV = 0.01). Hepatitis, stomach ulcer, bowel disorders, urinary problems, psoriasis, cancer, and leucoderma were the most treated ailments with ICF value of 1, followed by leucorrhea (ICF: 0.89), and vomiting (ICF: 0.86). The highest Jaccard’s similarity index value (JI = 0.329) showed that plant species reported in our study was more similar with Arid regions of Northern Punjab, Pakistan. This novel ethnobotanical report concluded that traditional knowledge about use of medicinal plants is decreasing due to allopathic medicines. Immediate steps should be taken for conservation and documentation of traditional knowledge of plants especially those having medicinal properties. Public Library of Science 2022-04-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8989321/ /pubmed/35389994 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265125 Text en © 2022 Munir et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Munir, Mubashrah
Sadia, Sehrish
Khan, Adnan
Rahim, Bakht Zareen
Gagosh Nayyar, Brian
Ahmad, Khawaja Shafique
Khan, Arshad Mahmood
Fatima, Ishrat
Qureshi, Rahmatullah
Ethnobotanical study of Mandi Ahmad Abad, District Okara, Pakistan
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title_fullStr Ethnobotanical study of Mandi Ahmad Abad, District Okara, Pakistan
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title_short Ethnobotanical study of Mandi Ahmad Abad, District Okara, Pakistan
title_sort ethnobotanical study of mandi ahmad abad, district okara, pakistan
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8989321/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35389994
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265125
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