Ethnobotanical inventory and folk uses of indigenous plants from Pir Nasoora National Park,Azad Jammu and Kashmir
Ethnobotanical inventory and folk uses of indigenous plants from Pir Nasoora National Park,Azad Jammu and Kashmir作者机构:Department of BotanyPMAS-University of Arid Agriculture Department of BotanyWomen University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir
出 版 物:《Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine》 (亚太热带生物医学杂志(英文版))
年 卷 期:2015年第5卷第3期
页 面:234-241页
学科分类:0710[理学-生物学] 0831[工学-生物医学工程(可授工学、理学、医学学位)] 100703[医学-生药学] 1007[医学-药学(可授医学、理学学位)] 10[医学]
主 题:Ethnobotany Pir Nasoora Indigenous knowledge Conservation
摘 要:Objective:To document the medicinal and other folk uses of native plants of the area with a view to preserve the ethnobotanical knowledge associated with this ***:The fieldwork was conducted during a period of one *** were collected through a semi-structured questionnaire and interviews with indigenous tribal people and traditional health practitioners residing in the study ***:The present study documented ethnobotanical uses of 104 plant species belonged to93 genera and 51 *** revealed that most of the documented species were used medicinally(78 spp..44.07%).Leaves were found to be the most frequently used part(69 spp..42.86%) for the preparation of indigenous recipes and for ***:The current research contributes significantly to the ethnobotanical *** depicts a strong human-plant *** is an urgent need to further document indigenous uses of plants for future domestication.