ETHNOMEDICINAL STUDY OF TEHSIL WAZIRABAD GUJRANWALA PUNJAB PAKISTAN

Abstract

An ethnomedicinal study of important medicinal plants in Tehsil Wazirabad (District Gujranwala, Punjab Pakistan) was carried out. Ninety seven plant species were described a medicinally important plants that belonged to 54 different families. These plants are wild, cultivated and ornamental from which 60% wild plants, 34% cultivated and 6% ornamental plants were reported
to be of therapeutic use. Whole plant and different plant parts have been reported as utilized by local people of the study area for medicinal purpose such as leaves, roots, flowers, fruits, bark, stem and seeds. The leaves constitute 56% of plant part followed by fruit 32%, seed 24%, whole plant 20%, roots 19%, bark 9%, milky latex and flower 6%, stem 3%, rhizome and bulb both 1%. These plants are used to treat different diseases such as gastrointestinal diseases, dermatological disorders, kidney and liver problems, urogenital diseases and respiratory diseases etc. The data was quantitatively analyzed by using different parameters such as, use value (UV), relative frequency of citation (RFC), fidelity level (FL), informant consensus factor (ICF), and direct matrix ranking (DMR). The findings provide useful information about medicinal plants of the study area (Tehsil Wazirabad, District Gujranwala,
Punjab Pakistan). Some plants have important role in the basic health care requirement of area such plants should be evaluated for further pharmacological study and biological active compounds.