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Accepted Paper:

Medico-Ethnobotany of plants used by the nomads of Nara Desert, Pakistan  
Rahmatullah Qureshi (PMAS Arid Agriculture University)

Paper short abstract:

Ethnobotany is widely used for the documentation of indigenous knowledge of plants by the indigenous communities of the world. Recently, ethnobotanical studies have been used for the discovery of new drugs development programme. This paper reports an ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plants used by the nomads of the Nara Desert, Pakistan. The presenting author thankfully acknowledge for travel grant by the Pakistan Science Foundation, Islamabad for presenting this paper in the conference.

Paper long abstract:

Ethnobotany is widely used for the documentation of indigenous knowledge of plants by the indigenous communities of the world. Recently, ethnobotanical studies have been used for the discovery of new drugs development programme. This paper reports an ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plants used by the nomads of the Nara Desert, Pakistan. Seventy six plant species belonging to 64 genera and 36 families were documented having medicinal use by the inhabitants of the study area. Of them, 25 species are proposed to have novel uses not recorded in the medicinal literature. About 50 types of ailments were treated with various parts of the 76 medicinal plant species. The maximum species were used for treating wounds (9 spp., 5.56%), followed by inflammation (8 spp., 4.94%), cooling agent (7 spp., 4.32%), skin diseases (7 spp., 4.32%), asthma (6 spp., 3.70%), constipation (6 spp., 3.70%), rheumatic/sciatic pain/sores/carbuncle (6 spp., 3.70% each) and ear infection/joint pain and inflammation (5 spp., 3.09% each). For making herbal recipes, leaves were the most utilized part (29.10%), followed by whole plant (26.12%), fruits (14.18%) and roots (8.96%), while rest of eight parts were scarcely used. For the preparation of recipes mostly powder (21.24%), followed by juice (19.47%), paste (18.58%) and decoctions (11.50%) as medicaments. This study will serve as benchmark for the development of certain drugs from the novel as well additional uses reported by this communication.

Panel P11
Public health: anthropological collaboration and critique
  Session 1