Title: Survey of Indigenous medicinal plants and Traditional foods in the Lorestan province, West Iran
Abstract: The aims of this study were to identify, present and review the medicinal plants and traditional foods which used by lori herbalists. The list of traditional healers of Lorestan province was prepared and data were obtained by direct observation, interviews and the questionnaires after that, herbarium samples were collected from the desired area.According to results, there are 49 indigenous species of medicinal and food plants collected during the survey that locale people were believing they are healing. 41 of them are for medicinal purposes and the rest are for food. The most numbers of medicinal plants were belong to the families of Umbelliferae and Liliaceae (both 4 species). Vomit and Feverwere the kind of disease mentioned with the most number of species, and processed edible plants were the kind of consumption pattern represented by the most number of species.In conclusion, people in this area have a strong belief that plants have a positive impact in the treatment of disorders and they have used medicinal plants since ancient times to treat these disorders. Our study revealed the importance of herbal medicines and traditional medicine in this area as
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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