An ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used by Palestinians in Gaza Strip
Other Title(s)
دراسة النباتات الطبية المستخدمة في الطب الشعبي من قبل الفلسطينيين في قطاع
Dissertant
Thesis advisor
al-Bashiti, Tariq Abd al-Qadir
Abu Awdah, Muhammad Mahmud
University
Islamic University
Faculty
Faculty of Science
Department
Department of Biological Science
University Country
Palestine (Gaza Strip)
Degree
Master
Degree Date
2018
English Abstract
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
Main Subjects
Topics
No. of Pages
105
Table of Contents
Table of contents.
Abstract.
Abstract in Arabic.
Chapter One : Introduction.
Chapter Two : Literature review.
Chapter Three : Materials and methods.
Chapter Four : Results.
Chapter Five : Discussion and conclusions.
References.
American Psychological Association (APA)
al-Ghuff, Samar Yusuf Sad. (2018). An ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used by Palestinians in Gaza Strip. (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Islamic University, Palestine (Gaza Strip)
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
al-Ghuff, Samar Yusuf Sad. An ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used by Palestinians in Gaza Strip. (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Islamic University. (2018).
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-900929
American Medical Association (AMA)
al-Ghuff, Samar Yusuf Sad. (2018). An ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used by Palestinians in Gaza Strip. (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Islamic University, Palestine (Gaza Strip)
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-900929
Language
English
Data Type
Arab Theses
Record ID
BIM-900929
