Ethnopharmacological Survey of Plants Used for the Treatment of Stomach, Diabetes, and Ophthalmic Diseases in Sudhan Gal
The present paper represents the ethnopharmacological survey of Sudhan Gali, Kashmir, Pakistan. The study revealed that 12 plant species belonging to 11 famihes were used for the treatment of stomach, diabetes and ophthalmic diseases by the local people in Sudhan GaB. Achillea millefolium, Aconitun heterophyllum, Berberis lycium, Polygonum amplexicaule, Mentha longifolia, Paeonia emodi, Plantago lanceolata were locally used for stomach related problemstreatment; Berberis lycium, Skimmia lareola, Solanum dulcamara for diabetes and Geranium wallichianum, Artemisia vulgaris, Solanum dulcamara, and Corydalis crassifolia used for the treatment of ophthalmic diseases. Two species Berberis lycium and Solanum dulcamara have multipurpose value. Former is used to treat stomach as well as diabetes while latter is used to treat not only to diabetes but also ophthalmic diseases. According to IUCN categories, out of these 12 plant species collected and marketed, Polygonum amplexicaule and Paeonia emodi are endangered, Aconitum heterophyllum; Berberis lycium species are vulnerable while Plantago lanceolata and Skimmia lareola species are rare.The availability of these medicinal plants has decreased during the past 20 years and these are facing a drastic biotic pressure due to their extensive usage and non-scientific methods of collection. It is quite evident that these valuable native medicinal plants species are going to decline in number and ultimately will become extinct if no timely proper conservation strategies are adopted.
作 者： Muhammad Waseem M. Amin Ullah Shah Rizwana Aleem Qureshi Iqbal Muhammad Rabia Afza Saeeda Yousaf 作者单位： Muhammad Waseem,Rabia Afza(World Wildlife Fund, Pakistan)M. Amin Ullah Shah,Rizwana Aleem Qureshi(Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan)
Iqbal Muhammad(Kohat University of Science & Technology, Kohat, Pakistan)
Saeeda Yousaf(University of Peshawar, Pakistan)
刊 名： 云南植物研究 ISTIC PKU 英文刊名： ACTA BOTANICA YUNNANICA 年，卷(期)： 2006 28(5) 分类号： Q948 关键词： Medicinal plants IUCN Biotic pressure Conservation Ethnopharmacology