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| Ethnomedicinal practices in the highlands of central Nepal: A case study of Syaphru and Langtang village in Rasuwa district | |
Shrestha, Nawal1; Prasai, Deepshikha; Shrestha, Krishna Kumar2; Shrestha, Saugat3; Zhang, Xian-Chun
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| 2014 | |
| 发表期刊 | JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY
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| ISSN | 0378-8741 |
| 卷号 | 155期号:2页码:1204-1213 |
| 摘要 | Ethnopharmacological relevance: The present paper documents the utilization of medicinal plants for the treatment of various human ailments in two village development committees in the Rasuwa district of central Nepal. It also evaluates the ethnopharmacological significance of the documented reports and identifies species of high indigenous priority in local therapeutics. Materials and methods: The ethnobotanical information was collected by interviews and group discussions using standard ethnobotanical procedures. The homogeneity of informant's knowledge was validated by Informant consensus factor (F-IC) and the relative importance of a plant species used as medicine in the study area was calculated with the help of use value (UV). Results: The present study identified a total of 46 medicinal plants belonging to 26 families used for the treatment of 38 human ailments. Besides medicinal uses, the study has also documented the culinary and cultural use of 13 species of medicinal plants. The most commonly used part was root constituting about 42% of the total utilized plants. The most commonly used form of preparation was paste (31.91%). We found new usage reports for 9 medicinal plants. The F-IC value in the present study ranged from 0.66 to 1 with 84.6% values greater than 0.8 indicating high consensus among the informants. The most preferred species was Neopicrorhiza scrophulariflora (UV=0.96) and the lowest used value was found for Lyonia ovalifolia (UV=0.32). Conclusions: People of Rasuwa possess rich traditional knowledge in medicinal plants utilization with strong consensus among local people on the utilization of species evident by higher F-IC values in different ailment categories. Strong pharmacological evidence for a majority of species being currently used as medicines shows that the plants used in local therapeutics are likely to be more effective in treating different medical ailments. The bioactive compounds extracted from these medicinal plants could subsequently be used in the creation of novel drugs to treat life threatening human diseases. The species with high use values are the ones likely to be more vulnerable because of high demand and high collection pressure. Therefore, it is imperative to prioritize such species for cultivation and sustainable management in order to ensure their long term availability. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved. |
| 关键词 | Ethnomedicine Indigenous knowledge Informant consensus factor Langtang national park Medicinal plants |
| 学科领域 | Plant Sciences ; Chemistry, Medicinal ; Integrative & Complementary Medicine ; Pharmacology & Pharmacy |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.jep.2014.07.002 |
| 收录类别 | SCI |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| WOS关键词 | STERNB. RHIZOME EXTRACT ; MEDICINAL-PLANTS ; ESSENTIAL OILS ; ETHNOBOTANY ; BERBERINE ; CONSERVATION ; COMMUNITIES ; HIMALAYA ; HUMLA |
| WOS研究方向 | Plant Sciences ; Pharmacology & Pharmacy ; Integrative & Complementary Medicine |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000341897700025 |
| 出版者 | ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD |
| 文献子类 | Article |
| 出版地 | CLARE |
| EISSN | 1872-7573 |
| 资助机构 | WWF Nepal ; Ethnobotanical Society of Nepal |
| 作者邮箱 | nawalshrestha@gmail.com |
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| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://ir.ibcas.ac.cn/handle/2S10CLM1/27059 |
| 专题 | 系统与进化植物学国家重点实验室 |
| 作者单位 | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Bot, State Key Lab Systemat & Evolutionary Bot, Beijing 100093, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 3.Tribhuvan Univ, Cent Dept Bot, Kathmandu, Nepal 4.Tribhuvan Univ, Dhankuta, Nepal |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Shrestha, Nawal,Prasai, Deepshikha,Shrestha, Krishna Kumar,et al. Ethnomedicinal practices in the highlands of central Nepal: A case study of Syaphru and Langtang village in Rasuwa district[J]. JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY,2014,155(2):1204-1213. |
| APA | Shrestha, Nawal,Prasai, Deepshikha,Shrestha, Krishna Kumar,Shrestha, Saugat,&Zhang, Xian-Chun.(2014).Ethnomedicinal practices in the highlands of central Nepal: A case study of Syaphru and Langtang village in Rasuwa district.JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY,155(2),1204-1213. |
| MLA | Shrestha, Nawal,et al."Ethnomedicinal practices in the highlands of central Nepal: A case study of Syaphru and Langtang village in Rasuwa district".JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY 155.2(2014):1204-1213. |
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