ETHNOBOTANICAL STUDY OF TRADITIONAL MEDICINAL PLANTS USED TO TREAT HUMAN ILLNESS IN ISARA DISTRICT, GUDUMO NADA, SOUTHERN ETHIOPIA
Gizaw Bejigo* and Kedire Erbo
ABSTRACT
This ethnobotanical study was conducted in southern Ethiopia Dawuro zone Isara district at Gudumo-Nada sites. In this study 38 plant species belongs to 34 genera and 23 plant families were identified by 81 local community members for treatment of different human diseases. Asteraceae is the leading family (21.74%) followed by Lamiaceae (17.39%). The study shows that more medicinal plants (47.37%) were harvested from forest and herbs are most popular (55.3%) followed by shrubs (23.7%) plant habits. According to the result of this study leaves are more used part (26.32%) for traditional medicinal value followed by roots (15.80%). preference ranking of medicinal plants in the study shows Cyperus articulates scored the highest and first ranked indicting that it was the most effective in healing abdominal pain followed by Pentas schmperiana and the highest informant consensus factor value (0.91) was recorded by Tapeworm, Ascaris Lumbricoides and internal parasite disease categories.
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