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Medicinal plants used by inhabitants of the Shigar Valley, Baltistan region of Karakorum range-Pakistan

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, September 2017
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Title
Medicinal plants used by inhabitants of the Shigar Valley, Baltistan region of Karakorum range-Pakistan
Published in
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, September 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13002-017-0172-9
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Zaheer Abbas, Shujaul Mulk Khan, Jan Alam, Sher Wali Khan, Arshad Mehmood Abbasi

Abstract

The inhabitants of mountainous terrains depend on folk therapies to treat various ailments; however lack of plant based research and geographical constraints set the traditional knowledge in jeopardy. Present study is the first documentation on traditional uses of plant species by the inhabitants of the Shigar Valley, Karakorum Range, Northern Pakistan. Ethnobotanical data were collected over a period from July, 2013 to October, 2016 from 84 respondents, using semi structured questionnaire. Quantitative indices such as relative frequency citation (RFCs) and fidelity level (FL) were intended to evaluate the importance of medicinal plant species. In total 84 plant species belonging to 36 families and 72 genera were recorded. Fabaceae was dominant with 7 species, followed by Asteraceae, Lamiaceae and Rosacea (6 species each). Leaves, root, flowers, seeds and fruits were the frequently utilized plant parts, whereas among drug formulations, decoction (49%) was ranked first. Majority of the plant species were used to treat abdominal, respiratory and dermal ailments (31, 12 and 12, respectively). RFCs value ranged 0.477 to 0.11 for Tanacetum falconeri and Allium carolinianum, respectively; while Hippophe rhamnoides and Thymus linearis depicted 100% FL. Comparative assessment with previous reports revealed that traditional uses of 26% plant species counting Hedyserum falconeri, Aconitum violoceum var. weileri, Arnebia guttata, Biebersteinia odora, Clematis alpine var. sibirica, Corydalis adiantifolia and Saussurea simpsoniana were reported for the first time. The endemic medicinal plant species and traditional knowledge of Balti community living in extremely high mountains area were explored for the first time. A comprehensive survey of this region could be significant to drive the existing knowledge in market circuit with sustainable collection, and to evaluate economic potential of the plant species. Additionally, social livelihood could be reinforced through establishing collection sites, transformation and drying centres for micro and macro marketing of medicinal plant species. Plants and people interaction in the Karakorum Mountains.

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Unknown 127 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 13%
Student > Master 16 13%
Researcher 13 10%
Other 6 5%
Professor > Associate Professor 6 5%
Other 27 21%
Unknown 43 34%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 34 27%
Environmental Science 10 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 7 6%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 5%
Computer Science 4 3%
Other 17 13%
Unknown 49 39%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 February 2022.
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