Chaachouay Noureddine, Azeroual Abdelhamid, Bencharki Bouchaib, Zidane Lahcen
Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory in the Sciences, Education, and Training Indian Railways Institute Of Signal Engineering and Telecommunications (IRLSET), Hassan First University, Settat, Morocco.
Agri-Food and Health Laboratory (AFHL), Faculty of Sciences and Techniques of Settat, Hassan First University, Settat, Morocco.
Front Pharmacol. 2022 Aug 11;13:921918. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2022.921918. eCollection 2022.
Since the dawn of time, Moroccans have used medicinal plants as a popular remedy to treat a wide range of human and cattle health issues. Nonetheless, very little research has been conducted in the past to record and disseminate indigenous ethnopharmacological knowledge adequately. This study was conducted in the Rif and attempted to identify medicinal plants used by indigenous people to treat cardiovascular problems and the ethnomedicinal knowledge linked with them. The ethnobotanical study was carried out in the Moroccan Rif area over 2 years, from 2016 to 2018. We questioned 520 traditional herbalists and consumers of these herbs in total. The gathered data were examined and contrasted using quantitative ethnobotanical indicators such as family importance value (FIV), the relative frequency of citation (RFC), plant part value (PPV), fidelity level (FL), and informant consensus factor (ICF). The findings analysis revealed the presence of 33 plant species classified into 20 families, with the Poaceae dominating (7 species). Regarding disorders treated, the category of cardiac arrhythmias has the greatest ICF (0.98). The study discovered that the leaves were the most often utilized portion of the plants (PPV = 0.353) and that the most frequently used preparation was a decoction (31%). The current study's findings revealed the presence of indigenous ethnomedicinal knowledge of medicinal plants in the Moroccan Rif to treat cardiovascular illnesses. Further phytochemical, pharmacological, and toxicological investigations should be conducted to identify novel drugs from these documented medicinal plants.
自古以来，摩洛哥人就将药用植物作为一种常用疗法，用于治疗各种人类和牲畜的健康问题。然而，过去很少有研究充分记录和传播本土民族药理学知识。本研究在里夫地区开展，旨在识别当地居民用于治疗心血管问题的药用植物以及与之相关的民族医学知识。这项民族植物学研究于2016年至2018年在摩洛哥里夫地区进行了两年。我们总共询问了520名传统草药师和这些草药的使用者。使用家庭重要性值（FIV）、引用相对频率（RFC）、植物部分价值（PPV）、保真度水平（FL）和信息提供者共识因子（ICF）等定量民族植物学指标对收集到的数据进行了检查和对比。研究结果分析显示，共有33种植物，分为20个科，其中禾本科占主导（7种）。在治疗的疾病方面，心律失常类别的ICF最高（0.98）。研究发现，叶子是植物中最常使用的部分（PPV = 0.353），最常用的制剂是煎剂（31%）。本研究结果揭示了摩洛哥里夫地区存在关于药用植物治疗心血管疾病的本土民族医学知识。应进一步开展植物化学、药理学和毒理学研究，以便从这些已记录的药用植物中鉴定出新的药物。
