Butt Maryam Akram, Ahmad Mushtaq, Fatima Anam, Sultana Shazia, Zafar Muhammad, Yaseen Ghulam, Ashraf Muhammad Aqeel, Shinwari Zabta Khan, Kayani Sadaf
Department of Plant Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan.
Department of Plant Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan.
J Ethnopharmacol. 2015 Jun 20;168:164-81. doi: 10.1016/j.jep.2015.03.045. Epub 2015 Mar 27.
ETHNO-PHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: Medicinal plants represent one of the most accessible resources available for snake and scorpion bite among the rural communities of Northern Pakistan. This first ethno-botanical study aimed to document the indigenous knowledge and practices of using plants for snake and scorpion bite disorders in Northern Pakistan.
Ethno-medicinal data is documented from 187 informants using semi-structured interviews. The data is analyzed using quantitative ethno-botanical indices of frequency citation (FC) and relative Frequency of Citation (RFC). In addition to this, the ethno-medicinal findings of this survey were compared with 10 previous published studies in order to report novel uses of medicinal plants against snake and scorpion bite disorders.
In total 62 medicinal plants belonging to 40 families are reported against snake and scorpion bite in this study. Our results showed that Asteraceae is the most used family (10 species), dominant life form is herb (48.38%), leaves were the most used plants part (18 Use-reports) and the paste is most used method of administration (22 reports). The range of RFC was 0.08-0.27 about the use of documented species. Compared to previous published studies, 33.87% similarity index while 66.12% novelty index is reported. About 40 plant species are first time reported with medicinal uses against snake and scorpion bite from Northern Pakistan.
This study presents useful traditional knowledge of rural communities for the control of snake and scorpion bite using medicinal plants. The study mainly focused on ethno-medicinal documentation to preserve the valuable traditional knowledge that can be used in future phytochemical and pharmacological studies on medicinal plants of the area.
在巴基斯坦北部农村社区，药用植物是治疗蛇蝎咬伤最容易获取的资源之一。这项首次民族植物学研究旨在记录巴基斯坦北部使用植物治疗蛇蝎咬伤疾病的本土知识和实践。
通过半结构化访谈从187名信息提供者处记录民族药用数据。使用频率引用（FC）和相对引用频率（RFC）的定量民族植物学指标对数据进行分析。除此之外，将本次调查的民族药用结果与之前发表的10项研究进行比较，以报告药用植物治疗蛇蝎咬伤疾病的新用途。
本研究共报告了40个科的62种药用植物用于治疗蛇蝎咬伤。我们的结果表明，菊科是使用最多的科（10种），优势生活型是草本植物（48.38%），叶子是使用最多的植物部位（18次使用报告），糊剂是最常用的给药方法（22次报告）。已记录物种的RFC范围为0.08 - 0.27。与之前发表的研究相比，相似性指数为33.87%，新颖性指数为66.12%。约40种植物首次被报道在巴基斯坦北部具有治疗蛇蝎咬伤的药用价值。
本研究展示了农村社区利用药用植物控制蛇蝎咬伤的有用传统知识。该研究主要侧重于民族药用记录，以保存可用于该地区药用植物未来植物化学和药理学研究的宝贵传统知识。
