TY - JOUR AU - Uddin, Mohammad Zashim AU - Mitu, Farhana Yesmin AU - Rifat, Atiya Begum AU - Al-Kaium, Abdullah PY - 2019/12/23 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Ethnomedicinal study focusing on anti-diabetic plants used by the people living in and around Dhaka JF - Bangladesh Journal of Plant Taxonomy JA - Bangladesh J. Plant Taxon VL - 26 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.3329/bjpt.v26i2.44583 UR - https://www.banglajol.info/index.php/BJPT/article/view/44583 SP - 231-247 AB - <p>The present article mainly focused on the ethnomedicinal plants used by the&nbsp;community living in and around Dhaka to manage the diabetes. Ethnomedicinal data&nbsp;were collected using semi-structured interviews with key informants during June 2017 to&nbsp;July 2018 followed by field interviews, plant interviews, checklist interviews and group&nbsp;discussion techniques. A total of 92 ethnomedicinal plant species under 46 families have&nbsp;been documented. These species were used to treat 55 ailments through 200 formularies.&nbsp;Herbs are the most common medicinal plants in the study area followed by trees, shrubs&nbsp;and climbers. Leaf is mostly used for the preparation of herbal medicine. Among the total&nbsp;92 ethnomedicinal plants, 11 species have been used for diabetes management by the&nbsp;community people. Disease category diabetes showed maximum factor informant<br>consensus value. Most cited ethnomedicinal plant species for the diabetes management&nbsp;are <em>Gynura nepalensis</em> DC., <em>Coccinia grandis</em> L. Voigt, <em>Aloe vera</em> (L.) Burm. f., <em>Syzygium&nbsp;cumini</em> (L.) Skeels, <em>Swietenia mahagoni</em> (L.) Jacq., <em>Momordica dioica</em> Roxb. <em>ex.</em> Willd.,&nbsp;<em>Catharanthus roseus</em> (L.) G. Don, <em>Streblus asper</em> Lour., <em>Bryophyllum pinnatum</em> (Lamk.)&nbsp;Oken, <em>Tamarindus indica</em> L. and <em>Scoparia dulcis</em> L. The results in the present study for&nbsp;diabetes management were very preliminary and based on which sound conclusion was&nbsp;not possible. Further ethnopharmacological study is very essential on such species to&nbsp;validate their efficacy in the management of diabetes. Our findings also provide baseline&nbsp;data to establish a connection between the traditional users of medicinal plants and&nbsp;scientific communities, which can be substantial in novel drug discovery. Furthermore,&nbsp;ethnomedicinal data is of significant value for conservation managers and policy makers&nbsp;for sustainable management of ethnomedicinal plant species, which are under threat due&nbsp;to rapid urbanization.</p> ER -