Woldeamanuel Melaku Masresha, Geda Mohammed Kasso, Mohapatra Shibani, Bastia Tapan Kumar, Rath Prasanta, Panda Alok Kumar
Environmental Science Laboratory School of Applied Sciences, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, India.
College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Dire Dawa University, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia.
Front Pharmacol. 2022 Nov 23;13:1020097. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2022.1020097. eCollection 2022.
Gullele Botanical Garden (GBG) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia is a joint venture of Addis Ababa government and the university. The garden has been built mainly to conserve the endemic plants and to advance the research on the endemic and non-endemic plants collected from different part of Ethiopia. Many traditional healers from the environs of GBG and different subcities of Addis Ababa depend on the garden for their practice of traditional medicine but there is no systematic documentation of the traditional medicinal knowledge of these healers. The main objective of the present study is to comprehensively document the ethnobotanical and ethnomedicinal information from the traditional healers of different ethnic and cultural groups depending on GBG and to create a database of the endemic plants used by these healers. The ethnobotanical and ethnomedicinal data obtained from 60 traditional healers have been analyzed both qualitatively and quantitatively. A total of 81 medicinal plants belonging to 47 families have been identified. Majority of the plants used belonged to Asteraceae (12) family. The most frequently used plant form and plant parts are herbs and leaves. The major method adopted by the healers for preparation and administration of traditional medicine is crushing and topical, respectively. Skin and general diseases are the most important ailments treated by the healers. The three most cited plants used to treat diseases are Mesfin (60), (Bruce) J.F.Gmel (60) and Laggera tomentosa (A.Rich.) Sch.Bip. ex Oliv. & Hiern (58). The present study is the first systematic, qualitative, and quantitative ethnobotanical analysis and documentation done on the use of the medicinal plants from GBG for traditional medicine. In addition, our study reveals that is endemic and endangered plant and is highly used in traditional medicine. Therefore, GBG authorities should take steps for the propagation and restoration of this plant. Further it is suggested that the pharmacological properties of the roots and leaves of should be compared to find the possibility of use of leaves in place of roots for the preparation of traditional medicine which would help in conserving this endemic plant of Ethiopia.
埃塞俄比亚亚的斯亚贝巴的古莱莱植物园（GBG）是亚的斯亚贝巴政府与大学的合资企业。该植物园的建立主要是为了保护本地植物，并推动对从埃塞俄比亚不同地区收集的本地和非本地植物的研究。许多来自GBG周边地区以及亚的斯亚贝巴不同子城市的传统治疗师在其传统医学实践中依赖该植物园，但这些治疗师的传统医学知识尚无系统记录。本研究的主要目的是全面记录来自不同种族和文化群体、依赖GBG的传统治疗师的民族植物学和民族医学信息，并创建这些治疗师所使用的本地植物数据库。从60位传统治疗师那里获得的民族植物学和民族医学数据进行了定性和定量分析。共鉴定出47科的81种药用植物。使用的植物多数属于菊科（12种）。最常用的植物形态和植物部位是草本植物和叶子。治疗师制备和施用传统药物采用的主要方法分别是研磨和外用。皮肤疾病和一般疾病是治疗师治疗的最重要疾病。用于治疗疾病提及最多的三种植物是Mesfin（60次）、（布鲁斯）J.F.格梅尔（60次）和绒毛六棱菊（58次）。本研究是对GBG用于传统医学的药用植物进行的首次系统、定性和定量的民族植物学分析与记录。此外，我们的研究表明[此处原文植物名称缺失]是本地特有且濒危的植物，在传统医学中被大量使用。因此，GBG管理部门应采取措施对该植物进行繁殖和恢复。此外，建议比较[此处原文植物名称缺失]根和叶的药理特性，以寻找用叶替代根制备传统药物的可能性，这将有助于保护埃塞俄比亚的这种本地特有植物。
