Traditional uses of medicinal plants practiced by the indigenous communities at Mohmand Agency, FATA, Pakistan.

CONCLUSIONS: Current study is an important addition to the field of ethnomedicines. The study reports important medicinal plants from an area, which has not been investigated previously. Traditional knowledge is restricted to health practitioners and elder community members. This knowledge is at the verge of extinction because younger generation is not taking interest in its learning and preservation process. Hence, there is a dire need to phytochemically and pharmacologically test the investigated taxa for the validation of traditional knowledge.
PMID: 29316948 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Rural Remote Health - January 9, 2018 Category: Rural Health Authors: Aziz MA, Adnan M, Khan AH, Shahat AA, Al-Said MS, Ullah R Tags: J Ethnobiol Ethnomed Source Type: research