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E u r o S c i C o n J o i n t E v e n t s o n
Plant Science, Tissue Engineering
and Parasitology
December 03-04 , 2018
Amsterdam, Nether l ands
International Journal of Applied Science - Research and Review
ISSN: 2394-9988
Plant Science | Tissue Engineering | Parasitology 2018
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his study was designed keeping in view the greatest importance of the study area in context of its plant biodiversity and
location. The study area falls in Western Himalaya show rich floristic diversity. This is first ever ethnomedicinal exploration
from the investigated area. Area was visited frequently during 2014 to 2015 to collect medicinal flora of the study area. Semi-
structured questionnaire method was used to gather ethnobotanical information from each site. Information about the local
uses of the plants such as medicinal, timber, fodder and fuel wood etc. were got through random sampling by interviewing 300
individuals including nomads, local inhabitants from different age group and gender. Separate questionnaire was completed from
plant harvester, retailers, seniors, plant merchants and local therapists (Hakims). The data was gathered and analysed by using
MS Excel, 2013. The study revealed that the indigenous peoples of the area exploited 86(51.19%) species as traditional medicinal
plants, 136(80.95%) species for fodder, 48(28.57%) for fuel wood, 28(16.66%) for timber woods, 07(4.16%) for wild vegetable and
02(1.19%) for ethno-veterinary therapies. Similarly, 17(10.11%) species are for wild edible fruits, 2(1.19%) species for making
agricultural tools, 1(0.59%) species for fencing field borders. It was observed that local peoples used plant species for curing
different ailments such as toothache, backache, headache, body pain, abdominal pain, rheumatism, indigestion, wound healer,
cough, expectorant and tonic. These plants species as a whole or its parts are used to make remedy for treatment of diseases at
home. Community of the study area is poor and those living in the isolated partition depend on the use of therapeutic plants and
prepared crude drugs in form of juice, paste, infusion, decoction, water extract and powder pills.
khalidkhangcmansehra@gmail.comEthnobotanical uses of flora of Sathan Galli
district Mansehra, KP, Pakistan
Khalid Rasheed Khan
1
, Muhammad Farooq
1
, Abbas Hussain
Shah
1
, Manzoor Hussain
2
, Mujtaba Shah
2
and Danish Ali
1
1
Government Post Graduate College, Pakistan
2
Hazara University, Pakistan
Int J Appl Sci Res Rev 2018, Volume: 5
DOI: 10.21767/2394-9988-C2-006