Identification and ethnobotanical survey of profitable medicinal plants used as remedy in Sangina Pakistan

Abstract

A study on profitable medicinal plants was assessed through semi structured intervives to document ethno medicinal knowledge of Sangina, Pakistan from March 2013 to June 2014.The peoples of the locality use 46 medicinal plant species from 31 families. Lamiaceae was the most leading familiy. They use herb (65%), shrubs (17%) and trees (17%) while part used as whole plant (39%), bark (17%), leaf (30%), root (15%), fruit (13%), seed (10%), stem (4%) and gum (2%) as herbal medicines at different percentage as diuretic (26.08%), diarrohea (10.86%), blood purification (2.17%), gastro disorders (2.17%), stomachache (13.04%), vermifuge (4.34%), fever (10.86%), cold (4.34%), cough (15.21%), tooth brush (2.17%), healing of wounds (4.34%), pain killer (10.86%), tonic (17.39%), sedative (6.52%), antiseptics (2.17%), hepatic (8.69%), diarrhea (10.86%), dysentery (10.86%), bhung (2.17%), heart diseases (6.52%), antidandruff (6.52%), and diabetes (4.34%). This study may diffuse the knowledge regarding the potential of medicinal plants in the area.