背景:在非洲和其他地方,针对用于治疗和治疗鼻炎的植物的研究非常稀缺。
目的:记录南非林波波省传统治疗师(THs)在鼻炎和相关症状的治疗和管理中使用的植物。
方法:使用对林波波省105名THs的半结构化访谈收集数据,辅以植物标本采集和观察的野外考察。
结果:来自59属的63种植物,分布在40个植物科,主要是菊科(7种。)和大齿科(6种。)被THs用于治疗。总的来说,77草药食谱(87%=单和12.9%=聚),记录主要由根(55.5%)和叶(19%)制备。这些配方中的大多数是通过捣碎(59.7%)和煮沸(20.7%)处理的。口服(44.1%)和鼻腔(33.7%)是THs分配药物的首选方式。非洲蒿,棕褐色,变位隐虫,axillare细菌,Kalanchoe短叶,Lasiosiphoncaffer,Lippiajavanica,Schkuhriapinnata,长木瓜,SpirostachysAfricana,所有被质疑的THs都是治疗鼻炎和/或相关症状的最广泛使用和首选物种。
结论:这项研究首次记录了非洲传统上用于治疗鼻炎的植物。因此,它提供了林波波省用于治疗鼻炎的植物的基线数据。这项研究的发现可以作为进一步研究有效的植物性抗鼻炎药物的起点。
BACKGROUND: Studies focusing on plants used medicinally to heal and manage rhinitis are very scarce in Africa and elsewhere.
OBJECTIVE: To document plants used by traditional healers (THs) in the treatment and management of rhinitis and related symptoms in the Limpopo Province of South Africa.
METHODS: Data was gathered using a semi structured interviews with 105 THs in the Limpopo Province, supplemented by field expeditions for plant specimen collection and observation.
RESULTS: 63 plant species from 59 genera distributed across 40 botanical families, mainly the Asteraceae (7 spp.) and Euphorbiaceae (6 spp.) were therapeutically used by THs. Overall, 77 herbal recipes (87%=mono and 12.9%=poly), mainly prepared from roots (55.5%) and leaves (19%) were recorded. Most of these recipes were processed via pounding (59.7%) and boiling (20.7%). Oral (44.1%) and nasal (33.7%) was the preferred modes of dispensing remedies by THs. Artemisia afra, Clerodendrum ternatum, Cryptocarya transvaalensis, Enicostema axillare, Kalanchoe brachyloba, Lasiosiphon caffer, Lippia javanica, Schkuhria pinnata, Securidaca longepedunculata, Spirostachys africana, Stylochaeton natalensis and Zanthoxylum capense were the most widely used and preferred species for treatment of rhinitis and/or related symptom by all questioned THs.
CONCLUSIONS: This study is the first to document plants used traditionally to treat rhinitis in Africa. Therefore, it provides a baseline data on the plants used to heal rhinitis in the Limpopo Province. Finding of this study can be used as apedestal for further investigation in to effective plant-based anti-rhinitis drugs.