Rehman Khalid, Mashwani Zia-ur-Rehman, Khan Mubark Ali, Ullah Zahid, Chaudhary Hassan Javed
Department of Plant Sciences, Quaid.-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Department of Botany, PMAS Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
J Ethnopharmacol. 2015 May 13;165:251-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jep.2015.02.035. Epub 2015 Feb 27.
The present study was carried out with an aim to gather, evaluate and analyze the ethno botanical information of medicinal uses of the plant species possessed by the native Khattak tribe of the Chonthra, district Karak Pakistan. The region with poor documentation of traditional knowledge, preserving the local traditional knowledge, reporting new as well as rarely reported medicinal properties of medicinal plants, to be tested experimentally for validation.
The medicinal uses of existing plant species were documented by oral communication with 103 people, all over above 60 years of age, born and residing in Chonthra. Information was gathered by semi-structured interviews with further analysis by indices like Relative frequency citation RFC and Medicinal use value MUV.
The study resulted with medicinal information on 66 plants species belonging to 34 families (using against 58 health related problems with 83 different preparations mainly administered orally and topical). The dominant families include Brasicaceae and Limiaceae. Withania coagulans and Pegnum harmala were the plant species quoted 100% by the informants with RFC values 1 each. The MUV were scattered between 1.24 and 0.03. The highest MUV were W. coagulans 1.24, Pegnum harmala 1.18, Fagonia cretica 1.14. This study for the first time include Nepeta lagopsis to the ethnobotanical wealth.
This study was an extension to the ethnobotanical research conducted in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Pakistan. The target area being small and less number of plants with limited traditional knowledge can serve basis for further work focusing on rarely or non- reported plant species of pharmacological and phytochemical importance with active metabolite capable of broadening the sources of new drugs.
本研究旨在收集、评估和分析巴基斯坦卡拉奇县琼特拉当地卡塔克部落拥有的植物物种药用民族植物学信息。该地区传统知识记录匮乏，旨在保存当地传统知识，报告药用植物新的以及罕见报道的药用特性，以便进行实验验证。
通过与103位年龄在60岁以上、出生并居住在琼特拉的人进行口头交流，记录现有植物物种的药用用途。通过半结构化访谈收集信息，并通过相对频率引用（RFC）和药用价值（MUV）等指标进行进一步分析。
该研究得出了关于34个科66种植物的药用信息（用于治疗58种与健康相关的问题，有83种不同制剂，主要通过口服和外用给药）。优势科包括十字花科和唇形科。凝固性睡茄和骆驼蓬是被 informant 100% 引用的植物物种，RFC 值均为1。MUV 在1.24至0.03之间分布。MUV 最高的是凝固性睡茄1.24、骆驼蓬1.18、刺山柑1.14。本研究首次将藏荆芥纳入民族植物学宝库。
本研究是对巴基斯坦开伯尔-普赫图赫瓦省（KPK）进行的民族植物学研究的扩展。目标区域较小，植物数量较少且传统知识有限，可为进一步研究提供基础，重点关注具有药理和植物化学重要性、含有能够拓宽新药来源的活性代谢物的罕见或未报道的植物物种。
