Department of Botany, Rajiv Gandhi University, Rono Hills 791112, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, India.
J Ethnopharmacol. 2011 Mar 8;134(1):18-25. doi: 10.1016/j.jep.2010.11.053. Epub 2010 Dec 1.
The medicinal plants are integral source of easily available remedy used in rural healthcare system. This study was conducted among three major ethnic groups namely the Nocte, the Nyishi and the Adi in the Eastern Himalayan region of Arunachal Pradesh to evaluate their comparative knowledge on medicinal plants.
The three remote districts of Arunachal Pradesh namely the Tirap, the Dibang Valley and the Papum Pare were surveyed through interviewing of randomly selected 237 participants using semi-structured questionnaire and regular field visits to selected districts.
We recorded the traditional use of 74 medicinal plants species belonging to 41 taxonomic plant families used for treating a total of 25 different diseases/ailments. The informant consensus factor (ICF) values demonstrated that local people tend to agree more with each other in terms of the plants used to treat malaria (0.71), jaundice (0.62), urological problems (0.56), dermatological disorders (0.45), pain (0.30), and respiratory disorder (0.33), and while the general health (0.15) and gastro-intestinal disorders category (0.28) were found low ICF values.
Of the total 74 species recorded, the highest number of medicinal plants (36 species) was reported from the Adi of Lower Dibang Valley followed by the Nocte of the Tirap (25 species) and the Nyishi ethnic groups of Papum Pare districts (13 species). In the present study, we found that the men, elder people and illiterate ones had better knowledge on medicinal plants as compared to women, younger and literate people. Findings of this documentation study can be used as an ethnopharmacological basis for selecting plants for future phytochemical and pharmaceutical studies.
药用植物是农村医疗体系中常用的简易疗法的重要来源。本研究在阿鲁纳恰尔邦东部喜马拉雅地区的三个主要族群——诺克提人、尼西人和阿迪人——中进行，旨在评估他们对药用植物的比较知识。
通过对半结构问卷的采访，对阿鲁纳恰尔邦的三个偏远地区——蒂拉普、迪邦山谷和帕普姆帕雷——进行了调查，采访对象是随机选择的 237 名参与者，并定期到选定的地区进行实地考察。
我们记录了 74 种药用植物的传统用途，这些植物属于 41 个分类植物科，用于治疗 25 种不同的疾病/不适。信息共识因子（ICF）值表明，当地人在使用植物治疗疟疾（0.71）、黄疸（0.62）、泌尿科问题（0.56）、皮肤病（0.45）、疼痛（0.30）和呼吸道疾病（0.33）方面彼此之间的共识更多，而一般健康（0.15）和肠胃疾病（0.28）类别的 ICF 值较低。
在所记录的 74 种物种中，来自下迪邦山谷的阿迪族报告的药用植物数量最多（36 种），其次是蒂拉普的诺克提族（25 种）和帕普姆帕雷地区的尼西族（13 种）。在本研究中，我们发现男性、老年人和文盲在药用植物知识方面比女性、年轻人和识字者要好。这项文献研究的结果可以作为选择植物进行未来植物化学和药物研究的民族药理学基础。
