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Medicinal plants in Baskoure, Kourittenga Province, Burkina Faso: an ethnobotanical study.

Abstract：

AIM OF THE STUDY:The majority of people living in Kourittenga Province, Burkina Faso, are highly dependent on medicinal plants for their daily health care. Knowledge on the use of medicinal plants by traditional healers is being seriously threatened, due to the fact that it is commonly transferred from one generation to another only verbally. Moreover, recent environmental changes, deforestation, and unsustainable rates of exploitation, represent a serious risk for plant species diversity. Thus, there is a need to record and document indigenous knowledge on medicinal plants in this country. The aim of this study was to report on the use of medicinal plants by traditional healers to treat human diseases in a rural area located in the East-Centre Region of Burkina Faso (Baskoure Area), which has not yet been studied from an ethnobotanical point of view. MATERIALS AND METHODS:The research was carried out over a period of 8 months, by means of open-ended and semi-structured interviews. A total of 41 traditional healers were interviewed, and group meetings were organised with family members and other local inhabitants having knowledge of traditional medicine. RESULTS:A total of 190 plant species were recorded. Most medicinal plants used to prepare concoctions were herbs, and leaves were the most frequently used parts. A high percentage of plants were used against gastrointestinal diseases and malaria, which are the prevalent diseases in the study area. The major source of remedies came from wild plants, indicating that cultivation of medicinal plants is not a common practice. CONCLUSIONS:Our study represents an inventory on medicinal plants used in a rural area of Burkina Faso, and confirms that wild plants are widely utilised as health remedies in this area. The collected data may help to avoid the loss of traditional knowledge on the use of medicinal plants detained by traditional healers, and represent the preliminary information required in view of a future phytochemical investigation on the most used plants.

journal_name

J Ethnopharmacol

journal_title

Journal of ethnopharmacology

authors

Nadembega P,Boussim JI,Nikiema JB,Poli F,Antognoni F

doi

10.1016/j.jep.2010.10.010

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2011-01-27 00:00:00

pages

378-95

issue

eissn

0378-8741

issn

1872-7573

pii

S0378-8741(10)00701-4

journal_volume

133

pub_type

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Medicinal plants in Baskoure, Kourittenga Province, Burkina Faso: an ethnobotanical study.