DOCUMENTATION OF TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE ABOUT USES OF MEDICINAL PLANTS FOUND IN KIRTHAR NATIONAL PARK, DISTRICT DADU, SINDH, PAKISTAN
Journal Title: International Research Journal of Pharmacy (IRJP) - Year 2012, Vol 3, Issue 12
Abstract
National Parks are diverse habitats for different medicinal plant species. Keeping the diversity and variation in view twenty one different areas in Pakistan have been declared as National Parks. Kirthar National Park is the second largest protected area of Pakistan, situated at a distance of about 80 Km in northeast of Karachi. Internationally the region is classified as Saharo Sindian region’s inhabited by three different ethnic groups, viz. Burfat, Gabool and Rind having different ways of life, beliefs, and traditions. Plants of this region have inordinate medicinal importance and native communities have been utilizing local flora for medicinal purposes over generations. Information about medically important plants is available sporadically with local people. A total of 50 plant species (trees, herbs and shrubs) of 31 families were evidence to be used for medicinal purposes by the local inhabitants. More than150 local Hakims, senior citizens and farmers were interviewed for this purpose. Hopefully this kind of information will also generate wide interest in protecting and preserving diversity of plant species with medicinal importance. Due to the deaths of old people and changing trends, the valuable traditional medicinal knowledge is depleting from minds, this study could be helpful in conservation perspective of medicinally important plant species of Kirthar and traditional knowledge about their uses.
Authors and Affiliations
Tariq Khan , Umer Habib , Amir Saleem , Mohammad Khan, Sikander Khan, Muhammad Shah
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