Ethnobotany of Medicinal Plants in the Thar Desert (Sindh) of Pakistan

Ethnomedicinal uses of Edible Wild Fruits (EWFs) in Swat Valley, Northern Pakistan

“…The consensus in information relating to each use category was evaluated using the formula as ICF (0-1) = Nur -Nt/Nur -1, (Yaseen et al 2015;Tabuti et al 2003;Canales, 2005;Heinrich, 1998).…”

“…Pakistan is gifted with rich natural resources, ethnic composition and ancient civilizations; with a multiplicity of climates, environmental zones and geographical regions that are endowed with variety of medicinal plants (Yaseen et al 2015). It has rich floral diversity of flowering plants reported to occur in different parts of the country.…”

Ethnopharmacological documentation of medicinal plants used for hypertension among the local communities of DIR Lower, Pakistan

“…4). In herbal health care system, herbs are more dominantly used due to their easy accessibility, more healing potential and wide variety of bioactive compounds (Yaseen et al, 2015). It was also revealed in previous studies that herbs have more potential of yielding secondary metabolites, which may be the ultimate source of active compounds responsible for therapeutic actions against diseases.…”

Bioactive Compounds from Medicinal Plants and Their Importance in Drug Discovery in Pakistan

“…In various human cultures around the world more than 35,000 plant species are being used for their medicine purposes [7] and for primary health care nearly 80% of the world populations rely on these traditional medicines which include the use of plant extracts most of the time [8]. Ethnomedicinal studies play a vital role to discover new drugs from indigenous medicinal plants and green pharmaceuticals are getting popularity and extraordinary importance [9] because vast chances for new drug discoveries are provided by the unrivaled availability of chemical diversity and natural products either as pure compounds or as homogenous plant extracts [10]. A decade ago the synthetic drugs because of unanticipated side effects were approved as safe and effective and had to be recalled and relabeled.…”