Shah Sidra Ahsan, Iqbal Wajeeha, Sheraz Muneeba, Javed Bilal, Zehra Syeda Sadaf, Abbas Hafiza Aniqa Bint E, Hussain Waris, Sarwer Abdullah, Mashwani Zia-Ur-Rehman
Allama Iqbal Medical College, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
Department of Internal Medicine, Basic Health Unit Noinwala Tehsil Wazirabad, Gujranwala, Punjab 52000, Pakistan.
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2021 Oct 25;2021:5547987. doi: 10.1155/2021/5547987. eCollection 2021.
Bajwat Wildlife Sanctuary is a complex riverine ecosystem and is unique because of the presence of river Chenab, various seasonal streams, lakes, and Head Marala barrage. These ecogeographic conditions provide diverse natural habitats for various plant and animal species to grow uninterrupted and have undocumented ethnopharmacologically important medicinal flora. The present study involves the first-ever extensive investigation to document the ethnopharmacological knowledge on medicinal plants of local healers and inhabitants of the Bajwat Wildlife Sanctuary to treat ailments. The unstructured and semistructured interviews of the local healers and inhabitants were conducted that included 130 individuals. The ethnomedicinal formulations, their method of preparation, mode of administration, parts of the plant used, diseases cured, and their categorization along with species use report (UR) were analyzed. The ethnopharmacological study led to the enlisting of 114 medicinal plant species belonging to 97 genera and distributed among 47 plant families. 2029 URs were collected with 42 general disease categories. Each plant species was reported 18 times to cure various diseases (∼18 UR), while ∼48 URs were collected on each disease category by local informants. Digestive issues (290 URs, ∼14.29%) and skin infections (279 URs, ∼13.75%) were found most commonly among the occupants of the area. The oral administration (69%) of herbal drugs and the preparation of plant extracts (32%) were the most common ethnopharmacological strategies. Inhabitants of the area were well aware of the limited use of poisonous plants. 8 (∼7%) out of the total 114 medicinal plant species were listed in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species as Least Concern, while Dehnh. was enlisted as near-threatened. The results of the present investigation show that the occupants of the Bajwat have sound information about the ethnopharmacological consumption of medicinal plants, and some of the novel ethnomedicinal formulations were reported which provide the basic data for further pharmacological research.
巴杰瓦特野生动物保护区是一个复杂的河流生态系统，因其拥有杰纳布河、各种季节性溪流、湖泊和马拉拉大坝而独具特色。这些生态地理条件为各种动植物物种提供了多样的自然栖息地，使其得以不间断地生长，并且拥有未被记录的具有民族药理学重要性的药用植物群。本研究首次进行了广泛调查，以记录巴杰瓦特野生动物保护区当地治疗师和居民关于药用植物治疗疾病的民族药理学知识。对当地治疗师和居民进行了非结构化和半结构化访谈，共涉及130人。对民族药用配方、其制备方法、给药方式、使用的植物部位、治愈的疾病及其分类以及物种使用报告（UR）进行了分析。民族药理学研究列出了114种药用植物，分属于97个属，分布在47个植物科中。收集到2029份使用报告，涉及42种常见疾病类别。每种植物物种被报告可治愈各种疾病18次（约18份使用报告），而当地信息提供者针对每种疾病类别收集到约48份使用报告。在该地区居民中，消化问题（290份使用报告，约14.29%）和皮肤感染（279份使用报告，约13.75%）最为常见。草药的口服给药（69%）和植物提取物的制备（32%）是最常见的民族药理学策略。该地区居民深知有毒植物的使用有限。在总共114种药用植物物种中，有8种（约7%）被列入世界自然保护联盟濒危物种红色名录，被列为最不受关注物种，而德恩（Dehnh.）被列为近危物种。本次调查结果表明，巴杰瓦特的居民对药用植物的民族药理学用途有充分了解，并且报告了一些新的民族药用配方，为进一步的药理学研究提供了基础数据。
