[ Etude ethnobotanique des plantes médicinales utilisées dans les provinces du Sahara marocain ]
Volume 24, Issue 2, September 2018, Pages 789–801
Moulay Sidi Brahim ALAOUI1, Badr Satrani2, Ekhlil BOUSSOULA3, and Mohamed Ghanmi4
1 Laboratoires de Chimie des Plantes Aromatiques et Médicinales et de Microbiologie, Centre de Recherche Forestière, BP 763, Agdal- Rabat, 10 050, Morocco
2 Forest Research Center BP 763, 10050, Rabat Agdal, Morocco
3 Laboratoires de Chimie des Plantes Aromatiques et Médicinales et de Microbiologie, Centre de Recherche Forestière, BP 763, Agdal- Rabat, 10 050, Morocco
4 Forest Research Center BP 763, 10050, Rabat Agdal, Morocco
Original language: French
Copyright © 2018 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Four cities in southern Morocco, namely Es-Smara, Laayoune, Boujdour and Dakhla, have been targeted by the ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used in the traditional pharmacopoeia of the local population in order to highlight popular knowledge and know-how and to establish a catalog of the medicinal plants used and their therapeutic uses. The results showed that medicinal plants are used by people of both sexes belonging to different age groups and socio-economic and intellectual levels. The leaves are the most used parts and the decoction constitutes the essential preparation of the vegetable drugs in the traditional herbal medicine. In addition, digestive pathologies are the major therapeutic indications for the use of medicinal plants. The most families represented in the medicinal flora used in the studied regions of the Moroccan Sahara are Lamiaceae, Asteraceae, Chenopodiaceae, Convolvulaceae, Apiaceae and Liliaceae. The results of this ethnobotanical study could be an important source of information and a database for further research in the fields of phytochemistry and pharmacology in order to find new bioactive molecules.
Author Keywords: southern Morocco, ethnobotanical study, medicinal plants, traditional pharmacopoeia.
Volume 24, Issue 2, September 2018, Pages 789–801
Moulay Sidi Brahim ALAOUI1, Badr Satrani2, Ekhlil BOUSSOULA3, and Mohamed Ghanmi4
1 Laboratoires de Chimie des Plantes Aromatiques et Médicinales et de Microbiologie, Centre de Recherche Forestière, BP 763, Agdal- Rabat, 10 050, Morocco
2 Forest Research Center BP 763, 10050, Rabat Agdal, Morocco
3 Laboratoires de Chimie des Plantes Aromatiques et Médicinales et de Microbiologie, Centre de Recherche Forestière, BP 763, Agdal- Rabat, 10 050, Morocco
4 Forest Research Center BP 763, 10050, Rabat Agdal, Morocco
Original language: French
Copyright © 2018 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Four cities in southern Morocco, namely Es-Smara, Laayoune, Boujdour and Dakhla, have been targeted by the ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used in the traditional pharmacopoeia of the local population in order to highlight popular knowledge and know-how and to establish a catalog of the medicinal plants used and their therapeutic uses. The results showed that medicinal plants are used by people of both sexes belonging to different age groups and socio-economic and intellectual levels. The leaves are the most used parts and the decoction constitutes the essential preparation of the vegetable drugs in the traditional herbal medicine. In addition, digestive pathologies are the major therapeutic indications for the use of medicinal plants. The most families represented in the medicinal flora used in the studied regions of the Moroccan Sahara are Lamiaceae, Asteraceae, Chenopodiaceae, Convolvulaceae, Apiaceae and Liliaceae. The results of this ethnobotanical study could be an important source of information and a database for further research in the fields of phytochemistry and pharmacology in order to find new bioactive molecules.
Author Keywords: southern Morocco, ethnobotanical study, medicinal plants, traditional pharmacopoeia.
Abstract: (french)
Quatre villes du Sud du Maroc à savoir Es-Smara, Laâyoune, Boujdour et Dakhla ont été ciblées par l’étude ethnobotanique des plantes médicinales utilisées dans la pharmacopée traditionnelle de la population locale afin de mettre en valeur les savoirs et savoir-faire populaires et établir un catalogue des plantes médicinales utilisées et leurs usages thérapeutiques. Les résultats obtenus ont montré que les plantes médicinales sont employées par des personnes des deux sexes appartenant à des tranches d’âges et à des niveaux socioéconomiques et intellectuels différents. Les feuilles constituent les parties les plus utilisées et la décoction constitue l’essentiel de préparation des drogues végétales dans la phytothérapie traditionnelle. En plus, les pathologies digestives sont les indications thérapeutiques majeures d’utilisation des plantes médicinales. Les familles les plus représentées dans la flore médicinale utilisée dans les régions étudiées du Sahara marocain sont les Lamiacées, Asteracées, Chénopodiacées, Convolvulacées, Apiacées et Liliacées. Les résultats de cette étude ethnobotanique pourraient constituer une source d’informations importante et une base de données pour des recherches ultérieures dans les domaines de la phytochimie et de la pharmacologie afin de trouver de nouvelles molécules bioactives.
Author Keywords: Sud du Maroc, étude ethnobotanique, plantes médicinales, pharmacopée traditionnelle.
How to Cite this Article
Moulay Sidi Brahim ALAOUI, Badr Satrani, Ekhlil BOUSSOULA, and Mohamed Ghanmi, “Ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used in the Moroccan Sahara provinces,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 789–801, September 2018.
