The Status of Medicinal Plants in Jordan

作     者：Sawsan Atallah Oran 

作者机构：Dept. of Biological Sciences Faculty of Sciences University of Jordan Amman 11942 Jordan 

出 版 物：《Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology(A)》 (农业科学与技术（A）)

年 卷 期：2014年第4卷第6期

页      面：461-467页

学科分类：1008[医学-中药学(可授医学、理学学位)] 0710[理学-生物学] 07[理学] 071002[理学-动物学] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Medicinal plants diversity Jordan. 

摘      要：The taxonomic status of the medicinal plants in Jordan is expressed in terms of its diversity, the documentation of the scientific research that is carried out locally over the last many years; to test for the potential of some medicinal plant species （MPS） in Jordan on different biological aspects is also prepared. This has been reported here by revising and documenting the available literature to the author on this subject. The ecological status of medicinal plants in Jordar is also pointed out. The aim of this research was mainly to evaluate the status of the research on medicinal plants that was carried oul： to test for the different biological potentials of medicinal plants in Jordan and to emphasis the richness of the country of its wild medicinal plants, which are of promising value in whether for use in traditional medicine or in pharmaceutical industry, and certainly need lots of investigations and scientific research. Photographs of some medicinal plants that are common in Jordan and are used in traditional medicine in the urban areas and the Badia region, which is located in the Eastern part of the country and characterized by its dry weather conditions and least amount of rainfall in the country, are also included; the plant photographs are selected from different representative families of the common flowering plants in Jordan.