Ayurvedic Influences and Novel Combination of Phytotherapy and Zootherapy by a Folk Medicinal Practitioner of Domar Upazila in Nilphamari District, Bangladesh

Nahar, Samsun; Farzana, Be nazir; Jahan, Rownak; Rahman, Taufiq; Hossan, Shahadat; Wiart, Christophe; Rahmatullah, Mohammed

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“…Clarke, fruits of Terminalia bellirica, Terminalia chebula, Piper peepuloides L., Piper nigrum, and bark of Xeromphis spinosa (Thunb.) Keay [71] . The leaves of Ocimum tenuiflorum were used by the FMPs for coughs.…”

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An ethnomedicinal survey on folk medicinal uses of plants in eastern Madhupur region of Pabna District, Bangladesh

Anu¹,

Jahan²,

Bashar³

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J. Med. Plants Stud.

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Background: Folk medicine, despite its enormous potential, is possibly the most overlooked medicinal system in the world. Folk medicinal practitioners (FMPs) are considered outdated, unscientific, and even looked down upon as mere charlatans. Yet not only conventional/allopathic medicine but also more systematic forms of traditional medicines (like Ayurveda, Unani Siddha, and homeopathy) owe a lot towards adopting folk medicinal use of plants and formulations. The objective of the present study was to collect data on plants used by FMPs in a section of Pabna district, Bangladesh and to determine whether the uses of a given plant(s) by the FMPs can be scientifically rationalized based on available scientific reports. Methods and findings: Information was collected from a father-son duo FMPs practicing in the eastern Madhupur region of Pabna district in Bangladesh. Both FMPs were informed in details as to the objectives of our repeated visits. Importance was given to obtaining permission to converse with them, take pictures, and to publish any collected information both internationally and nationally. Plants as shown by the FMPs were photographed and plant specimens collected, dried and identified by a trained botanist. Information on only fourteen plants were obtained strongly suggesting that FMPs are possibly a disappearing breed along with their generation-wise orally transmitted medicinal plant knowledge. Conclusions: Comparison of the medicinal uses of the plants by the FMPs and comparing such uses with published pharmacological activity reports on the plants indicate that the FMPs used the plants in a rational manner. The major difference between the FMPs use of a medicinal plant and conventional medicines is that FMPs usually use a plant or plant part wholly versus the conventional method of isolating and identifying the bio-active plant constituent and using it as a drug.

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An ethnomedicinal survey on folk medicinal uses of plants in eastern Madhupur region of Pabna District, Bangladesh

Anu¹,

Jahan²,

Bashar³

et al. 2023

J. Med. Plants Stud.

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“…Terminalia bellirica, Phyllanthus Emblica, dried aerial parts of Swertia chirayita and leaves of Tinospora cordifolia and Adhatoda vasica in fermented combinations is found to be effective in the treatment of Jaundice and is taken orally with honey 10 . Many synthetic drugs available for the treatment of these conditions cause multiple unwanted effects.…”

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Picrorhiza kurroa Royle ex Benth, belongs to the family Scrophulariaceae has gained immense medicinal value in Ayurvedic as well as in modern medicines including antioxidant, antiinflammatory, anti-pyretic, immunomodulatory, anticancer, hepatoprotective, etc. The present study aimed to ascertain analgesic and antipyretic activities of rhizome extracts of Picrorhiza kurrooa in Wister rats. Methanolic extracts at 260 mg/kg as well as 520 mg/kg exhibited highly significant (P<0.01) analgesic and antipyretic activity by oral dose for analgesic and rectal dose for antipyretic effects. Whereas hydroalcoholic extract showed significant effects at 520 mg/kg but not as good as that of methanolic extracts. INTRODUCTION: Picrorrhiza kurrooa, an herbal medicinal plant belonging to Scrophulariaceae family with around 200 genera and 3000 species, found in the Himalayan regions of China, Pakistan, India, Bhutan and Nepal 1. The plant has been reported for their different pharmacological activities like antioxidant 2 , anticancer 3 , immuno-modulatory 4 antiinflammatory 5 , hepatoprotective 6. The rhizomes of P. kurrooa have been traditionally used to treat liver, respiratory tract disorders, indigestion problems, fever, pain and dyspepsia 7. The chemical studies on the P. kurroa rhizomes revealed the presence of iridoids, acetophenones, and cucurbitacins 8, 9. Pyrexia, algesia is associated with several pathological conditions. It has been reported that the bark of Picrorhiza kurroa and Azadirachta indica, along with fruits of Terminalia chebula,

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Ayurvedic Influences and Novel Combination of Phytotherapy and Zootherapy by a Folk Medicinal Practitioner of Domar Upazila in Nilphamari District, Bangladesh

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An ethnomedicinal survey on folk medicinal uses of plants in eastern Madhupur region of Pabna District, Bangladesh

An ethnomedicinal survey on folk medicinal uses of plants in eastern Madhupur region of Pabna District, Bangladesh

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