Ethnopharmacologic survey of medicinal plants used to treat human diseases by traditional medical practitioners in Dega Damot district, Amhara, Northwestern Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

One of the services that plants provide for human beings is their wider medicinal application. Although it is not fully assessed, the practice and wider use of traditional medicine is frequent in Ethiopia. Studies conducted previously are confined to the perceptions of modern and traditional health practitioners about traditional medicine. A total of 45 informants were selected purposefully from the study area. For collecting the data, semi-structured interviewees, observation and field walks were employed from August 10 to September 30/2014. To summarize the information, descriptive statistical methods were applied.

Results

Sixty species of medicinal plants distributed in 42 families were collected and identified applied locally for the treatment of 55 human diso

SUBMITTER: Wubetu M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5395840 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature