Damtie Destaw
Department of Biology, College of Sciences, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia.
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2023 Nov 25;2023:8173543. doi: 10.1155/2023/8173543. eCollection 2023.
Diarrheal illness is the second-most common cause of death in under-five children. Worldwide, it results in about 1.7 billion illnesses and 525,000 deaths among under-five children annually. It is the leading cause of malnutrition among under-five children. Different people use medicinal plants to treat diarrhea. The present study aimed to review the medicinal plants used to treat diarrhea by the people in the Amhara region and to diagnose whether the antidiarrheal activities of the medicinal plants have been confirmed by studies using animal models.
The author searched 21 articles from worldwide databases up to December 2022 using Boolean operators ("AND" and "OR") and the terms "ethnobotanical studies," "ethnobiology," "traditional medicine," "ethnobotanical knowledge," and "Amhara region."
From the 21 studies reviewed, 50 plant species grouped into 28 families were reported to treat diarrhea by the people in the Amhara region. The top most used families were (12%), (8%), , and (6% each). The modes of administration of the plant parts were orally 98.88% and topically 1.12%. The different extracts of 18 (or 36%) of the medicinal plants traditionally used to treat diarrhea by the people in the Amhara region have been proven experimentally in animal models.
The people in the Amhara region use different medicinal plants to treat diarrhea. Most of them take the medicinal plants orally. The traditional claim that 60% of medicinal plants are antidiarrheal has been confirmed in studies.
腹泻病是五岁以下儿童第二大常见死因。在全球范围内，它每年导致五岁以下儿童约17亿例患病和52.5万例死亡。它是五岁以下儿童营养不良的主要原因。不同的人使用药用植物治疗腹泻。本研究旨在回顾阿姆哈拉地区人们用于治疗腹泻的药用植物，并诊断这些药用植物的止泻活性是否已通过动物模型研究得到证实。
作者截至2022年12月使用布尔运算符（“AND”和“OR”）以及术语“民族植物学研究”“民族生物学”“传统医学”“民族植物学知识”和“阿姆哈拉地区”，从全球数据库中检索了21篇文章。
在所回顾的21项研究中，阿姆哈拉地区的人们报告称有50种植物（分属28个科）可用于治疗腹泻。使用最多的科是[具体科名1]（12%）、[具体科名2]（8%）、[具体科名3]和[具体科名4]（各6%）。植物部位的给药方式为口服占98.88%，局部用药占1.12%。阿姆哈拉地区人们传统上用于治疗腹泻的药用植物中，有18种（即36%）的不同提取物已在动物模型实验中得到证实。
阿姆哈拉地区的人们使用不同的药用植物治疗腹泻。他们大多口服这些药用植物。在[具体]研究中已证实传统上认为60%的药用植物具有止泻作用这一说法。
