Ethnobotanical Study of Medicinal Plants Used by Traditional Healers to Treat Cancer-Like Symptoms in Eleven Districts, Ethiopia
المؤلفون المشاركون
Fenta, Teferi Gedif
Tesfaye, Solomon
Belete, Anteneh
Engidawork, Ephrem
Asres, Kaleab
المصدر
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
العدد
المجلد 2020، العدد 2020 (31 ديسمبر/كانون الأول 2020)، ص ص. 1-23، 23ص.
الناشر
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
تاريخ النشر
2020-04-21
دولة النشر
مصر
عدد الصفحات
23
التخصصات الرئيسية
الملخص EN
There is no ethnobotanical study conducted specifically on medicinal plants traditionally used to treat cancer in Ethiopia.
Yet, traditional herbalists in different parts of the country claim that they have been treating cancer-like symptoms using herbal remedies.
The objective of this study was to document medicinal plants traditionally used to treat cancer-like symptoms in eleven districts, Ethiopia.
Traditional herbalists were interviewed using semistructured questionnaires, and field visits were also carried out to collect claimed plants for identification purpose.
Seventy-four traditional herbalists, who claimed that they knew about and/or had used medicinal plants to treat cancer-like symptoms, were selected using the snowball method and interviewed.
Herbalists used their intuition and relied on the chronicity, growth of external mass, and spreading of the disease to other parts of the body, as a means to characterize cancer symptoms.
Furthermore, in some of the study districts, herbalists reported that they treat patients who had already been diagnosed in modern healthcare institutions prior to seeking help from them.
The inventory of medicinal plants is summarized in a synoptic table, which contains the scientific and vernacular names of the plants, their geographical location, the parts of the plants, and the methods used to prepare the remedies.
A total of 53 traditionally used anticancer plants, belonging to 30 families, were identified during the survey.
The most frequently reported anticancer plants were Acmella caulirhiza Del (Asteraceae), Clematis simensis Fresen.
(Ranunculaceae), Croton macrostachyus Del.
(Euphorbiaceae), and Dorstenia barnimiana Schweinf.
(Moraceae).
Organizing traditional healers, documenting their indigenous knowledge, and scientifically validating it for the development of better cancer therapeutic agents constitute an urgent and important task for policymakers and scientists.
نمط استشهاد جمعية علماء النفس الأمريكية (APA)
Tesfaye, Solomon& Belete, Anteneh& Engidawork, Ephrem& Fenta, Teferi Gedif& Asres, Kaleab. 2020. Ethnobotanical Study of Medicinal Plants Used by Traditional Healers to Treat Cancer-Like Symptoms in Eleven Districts, Ethiopia. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine،Vol. 2020, no. 2020, pp.1-23.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1157330
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الأمريكية للغات الحديثة (MLA)
Tesfaye, Solomon…[et al.]. Ethnobotanical Study of Medicinal Plants Used by Traditional Healers to Treat Cancer-Like Symptoms in Eleven Districts, Ethiopia. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine No. 2020 (2020), pp.1-23.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1157330
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الطبية الأمريكية (AMA)
Tesfaye, Solomon& Belete, Anteneh& Engidawork, Ephrem& Fenta, Teferi Gedif& Asres, Kaleab. Ethnobotanical Study of Medicinal Plants Used by Traditional Healers to Treat Cancer-Like Symptoms in Eleven Districts, Ethiopia. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2020. Vol. 2020, no. 2020, pp.1-23.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1157330
نوع البيانات
مقالات
لغة النص
الإنجليزية
الملاحظات
Includes bibliographical references
رقم السجل
BIM-1157330
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