Herbalists in Addis Ababa and Butajira, Central Ethiopia: Mode of service delivery and traditional pharmaceutical practice

Assessment of Traditional Medicinal Plants used to treat human and livestock ailments and their threatening factors in Gulomekeda District, Northern Ethiopia

“…In the present investigation, majority (41.2%) of the traditional medicines were taken orally, followed by dermal with accounting (20.6%). These results were similar to the findings of previous investigators [611,15,25,7,13,17] . They reported that oral administration was found to be the dominant route of remedy administration.…”

Ethnomedicinal study of plants used by Sheko ethnic group of Ethiopia

“…Other studies conducted elsewhere demonstrated similar results (Tesfu et al, 1995;Begossi et al, 2002;Collins et al, 2006;Teklehaymanot, 2009). Gedif and Hahn (2002) wrote that parents in Ethiopia prefer to pass their traditional medical knowledge more to sons than to daughters. However, a study conducted by Fassil (2003) in the rural Bahir Dar Zuria district, Northwestern Ethiopia, demonstrated that there is no significant difference in medicinal plant knowledge between men and women.…”

“…Most informants think that they could lose their income and respect if they reveal their knowledge to other people in the area. Secrecy in traditional medical practice is also a frequent phenomenon in different parts of the country (Gedif and Hahn, 2002;Balemie et al, 2004;Giday et al, 2009). It was also learnt that transfer of the knowledge among the Sheko community has mainly been taking place vertically from father/mother to child (mainly a son) which is in agreement with the result of a study carried out elsewhere in the country (Deribe et al, 2006).…”

An ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plants in the Eastern Himalayan zone of Arunachal Pradesh, India

“…However, a study conducted by Fassil (2003) in the Northwestern Ethiopia, revealed that there is no significant difference in medicinal plant knowledge between men and women. The majority of the informants reported that they keep their medicinal plant knowledge secret and that transfer of the knowledge has mainly been taking place vertically from father/mother to child mainly a son (Sharma et al, 1992;Gedif and Hahn, 2002;Muthu and Ignacimuthu, 2005;Uniyal et al, 2006;Deribe et al, 2006;Upadhyay et al, 2007;Giday et al, 2009;Teklehaymanot, 2009;Panghal et al, 2010). However, a study conducted by Jagtap et al (2006) in the rural Amravati district of Maharashtra, India, demonstrated that the traditional knowledge on medicinal plants is transferred to only select teenagers who work as assistants to the recognized Bhumkas in the community.…”