IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/apb/jahmss/2016p18-27.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Medicinal plants of Farashband tribe's winter pastures and their traditional uses

Author

Listed:
  • Seyed Hassan Zali

    (Sari Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources University–Sari, Iran)

  • Rahbar Tahmasb

    (Sari Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources University–Sari, Iran)

Abstract

Medicinal plants are a large group of plants that are used to prevent and or treat of human and animal diseases. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 80 percent of the population of some Asian and African countries presently uses herbal medicine for some aspect of primary health care. Since migrating nomads have more connection with nature and on many days of the year they are far from the cities, therefore they take medicinal plants more than other people. By several trips to study areas a total of 134 plant species distributed in 97 genera and 37 families were collected and identified. Based on the exhaustive interviews with indigenous people and medicinal plants references the medicinal plants of these plants were listed. Investigations were resulted that 67 species of these plants have medicinal uses. These medicinal species belongs to 31 families. Asteraceae with 11 species, Chenopodiaceae with 7 species and Lamiaceae with 6 species are the most important medicinal plants families. The major life forms of the medicinal plants in this area were annual herbs followed by perennial trees and shrubs with a proportion 34.32% and 26.86% respectively. 17.91% of the species are perennial herbs, 14.92% of the species are perennial bushes and 5.97% of species are annual bushes. Our results showed leaf and flower have the most traditional uses on Farashband tribe with a proportion 62.69% and 34.33% respectively.

Suggested Citation

  • Seyed Hassan Zali & Rahbar Tahmasb, 2016. "Medicinal plants of Farashband tribe's winter pastures and their traditional uses," Journal of Advances in Health and Medical Sciences, Balachandar S. Sayapathi, vol. 2(1), pages 18-27.
  • Handle: RePEc:apb:jahmss:2016:p:18-27
    DOI: 10.20474/jahms-2.1.3
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://tafpublications.com/platform/Articles/full-jahms2.1.3.php
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://tafpublications.com/gip_content/paper/jahms-2.1.3.pdf
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.20474/jahms-2.1.3?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:apb:jahmss:2016:p:18-27. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Balachandar S. Sayapathi (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://tafpublications.com/platform/published_papers/13 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.