An ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used by Palestinians in Gaza Strip

العناوين الأخرى

دراسة النباتات الطبية المستخدمة في الطب الشعبي من قبل الفلسطينيين في قطاع

مقدم أطروحة جامعية

al-Ghuff, Samar Yusuf Sad

مشرف أطروحة جامعية

al-Bashiti, Tariq Abd al-Qadir
Abu Awdah, Muhammad Mahmud

الجامعة

الجامعة الإسلامية

الكلية

كلية العلوم

القسم الأكاديمي

قسم العلوم الحياتية

دولة الجامعة

فلسطين (قطاع غزة)

الدرجة العلمية

ماجستير

تاريخ الدرجة العلمية

2018

الملخص الإنجليزي

The study aimed at evaluating the current status of folk medicine treatment in Gaza strip, identify medicinal plants still in use by therapists, and their importance in health care.

An ethnobotanical survey conducted investigated and recorded plant species used in folk medicine.

Information was collected by interview with 20 informants from different locations.

The study documented 72 medical plant species belonging to 33 families.

The most frequently utilized plant parts were leaves 41% followed by stems 18%, and seeds 14%.

The majority of remedies were used to treat gastrointestinal disorders, 37 species followed by circulatory system problems, 22 species, and Urinary system, 20 species.

The antimicrobial activity of eleven plant extracts and synergistic effect between some plant extracts was evaluated against Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus..

The antibacterial activities of the extracts were evaluated using the disk diffusion method, well diffusion method, minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and minimum bacterial concentration (MBC).

The results showed that the E.coli was more susceptible to the employed plant extracts than S.aureus.

In most plant extracts the aqueous extract has greater effect in the inhibition from ethanolic extract except Syzygium aromaticum which showed the large inhibition zone on the bacteria and the convergence between the results of the ethanol extract and aquatic extract in both disc and well diffusion method.

On the contrary of Syzygium aromaticum the Hibiscus sabdariffa shown the lowest MIC value in aquatic extact Compared to ethanolic extract against two types of pathogenic bacteria.

The MBC results for the most of the plant species in each ethanolic and aquatic extract against E.coli and S.aureus was >200.

This current study detected the effectiveness of synergistic effects to some extract with each other toward a pathogenic bacteria some plant extracts showed weak synergistic effect using disc and well diffusion method and low value of MIC

التخصصات الرئيسية

النبات

الموضوعات

• النباتات الطبية
• الطب الشعبي
• قطاع غزة
• الفلسطينيون

عدد الصفحات

105

قائمة المحتويات

• APA
• MLA
• AMA

لغة النص

الإنجليزية

نوع البيانات

رسائل جامعية

رقم السجل

BIM-900929