College of Applied and Industrial Sciences, University of Bahri, P.O. Box 1606, Khartoum, Sudan.
Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plant National Centre for Research, Khartoum, Sudan.
J Ethnobiol Ethnomed. 2018 Apr 27;14(1):31. doi: 10.1186/s13002-018-0230-y.
The inhabitants of western Sudan use traditional medicine for the treatment of various ailments due to lack of medical doctors and unaffordable prices of pharmaceutical products. The present study is the first documentation of the traditional plant knowledge on medicinal uses of plants by healers in Algoz (South Kordofan), Sudan.
Ethnobotanical data were collected over a period from March to November 2015 using semi-structured interviews with 30 healers (24 male and 6 female) living in the investigated area. Quantitative indices such as use categories, use value (UV) and informant consensus factor (ICF) were intended to evaluate the importance of medicinal plant species.
A total of 94 medicinal plants, which belong to 45 families and 81 genera, were recorded in the study area. The most represented families are Leguminosae with 20 species followed by Combretaceae (6 species), Rubiaceae (5 species) and Asteraceae (4 species). The reported species were belonging to herbs (43%), trees (28%), shrubs (22%), climbers (4%) and parasites (3%). Root and stem (21% each) were the most plant parts used. A majority of remedies are administered orally (67%) where infusion (36%) and maceration (32%) are the most used methods. The highest ICF (0.87) was reported for poisonous animal bites followed by urinary system diseases (0.89), blood system disorders (0.88) and gynaecological diseases (0.87). Anastatica hierochuntica, Ctenolepis cerasiformis, Echinops longifolius, Cleome gynandra, Maerua pseudopetalosa, Martynia annua, Oldenlandia uniflora, Opuntia ficus-indica, Solanum dubium, Sonchus cornutus, Tribulus terrestris and Drimia maritima were reported for the first time in this study.
The number of medicinal plants reported in this paper reflects evidence that Algoz area had a high diversity of medicinal plants which will continue to play an important role in the healthcare system in the study area.
由于缺乏医生和药品价格昂贵，苏丹西部的居民使用传统药物治疗各种疾病。本研究首次记录了苏德南部 Algoz 的治疗师使用植物治疗药用植物的传统植物知识。
2015 年 3 月至 11 月期间，通过对居住在该地区的 30 名治疗师（24 名男性和 6 名女性）进行半结构化访谈，收集了民族植物学数据。使用用途类别、使用价值（UV）和信息共识因子（ICF）等定量指标来评估药用植物物种的重要性。
在研究区域共记录了 94 种药用植物，它们属于 45 科 81 属。最具代表性的科是豆科，有 20 种，其次是使君子科（6 种）、茜草科（5 种）和菊科（4 种）。报告的物种属于草本植物（43%）、树木（28%）、灌木（22%）、藤本植物（4%）和寄生植物（3%）。根和茎（各占 21%）是使用最多的植物部位。大多数药物是口服给药（67%），其中浸剂（36%）和浸膏（32%）是最常用的方法。最高的 ICF（0.87）报告用于治疗毒蛇咬伤，其次是泌尿系统疾病（0.89）、血液系统疾病（0.88）和妇科疾病（0.87）。Anastatica hierochuntica、Ctenolepis cerasiformis、Echinops longifolius、Cleome gynandra、Maerua pseudopetalosa、Martynia annua、Oldenlandia uniflora、Opuntia ficus-indica、Solanum dubium、Sonchus cornutus、Tribulus terrestris 和 Drimia maritima 是首次在本研究中报告的。
本文报道的药用植物数量反映了一个证据，即 Algoz 地区拥有丰富的药用植物多样性，这些植物将继续在该地区的医疗保健系统中发挥重要作用。
