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An ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used in Zacatecas state, Mexico

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Reimers E., Cusimamani E., Rodriguez E., Zepeda del Valle J., Polesny Z., Pawera L.

Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae

2018

tom 87

nr 2

Despite the fact that Mexico has vast biocultural biodiversity, there are numerous regions where the traditional medicinal use of plants has not yet been studied. We aimed to document, analyze quantitatively, and preserve medicinal plant knowledge among local people living in over 40 communities in the state of Zacatecas. Ethnobotanical information was collected by semistructured interviews with 132 informants. Data were analyzed using standard quantitative indices such as relative frequency of citation, family importance value, cultural importance index, and informant consensus factor. We recorded 168 medicinal plant taxa belonging to 151 genera and 69 botanical families and used to treat 99 health disorders. The most medicinally important plant families were Asteraceae (20 species), followed by Fabaceae and Lamiaceae (12 species) and Cactaceae (five species). The most culturally important species was Matricaria chamomilla L., mentioned 140 times, followed by Arnica montana L. (62 times) and Artemisia ludoviciana Nutt (48 times). The highest consensus for use was for diseases of the reproductive system. The type of disorder for which there was the highest number of references for use (389; 25% of all uses) and plant species (67) were diseases of the digestive and gastrointestinal system. The present study represents the first quantitative medical-ethnobotanical documentation and analysis of the traditional use of medicinal plants in Zacatecas state. Despite the semiarid climate, this region is botanically highly diverse, and its flora have versatile medicinal uses.

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

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Pawera L., Verner V., Termote C., Sodombekov I., Kandakov A., Karabaev N., Skalicky M., Polesny Z.

Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae

2016

tom 85

nr 1

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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2 Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae

2 Pawera L.

2 Polesny Z.

1 Cusimamani E.

1 Kandakov A.

1 Karabaev N.

1 Reimers E.

1 Rodriguez E.

1 Skalicky M.

1 Sodombekov I.

1 Termote C.

1 Verner V.

1 Zepeda del Valle J.

1 2018

1 2016

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An ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used in Zacatecas state, Mexico

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