Ethnobotanical Study of Indigenous Medicinal Plants of Jazan Region, Saudi Arabia.

ABSTRACT: For a long time, the people of Saudi Arabia have been using medicinal plants (MPs) as conventional medicine to heal diverse human and livestock diseases. The present work is the first study on ethnobotanical uses of 124 MPs species used by the local tribal communities of Jazan province in the Southwest of Saudi Arabia. Ethnobotanical data were collected by interviewing 174 local informants using semistructured interviews. Informants of different ages, from several settlements belonging to several tribal communities, were interviewed. It is worth noticing that the age of informants and their knowledge of MPs were positively correlated, whereas the educational level and MP knowledge of participants were negatively correlated. To find out if there was agreement in the use of certain plants in

SUBMITTER: Tounekti T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6582903 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature