ETHNOBOTONICAL STUDY OF MEDICINAL PLANTS IN DINSHO WOREDA BALE ETHIOPIA

Abstract

of social, mental and physical illness in both human and livestock on their existence of life. Due to accessibility, acceptability and biomedical benefits there is a large magnitude of use and interest of medicinal plants in Dinsho woreda. Then the study entitled by the “Ethnobonical study of medicinal plant was carried out from May to June in Dinsho woreda. The main objective of this study is to assess and document medicinal plant species used by the indigenous people and threats affecting them in the study area. Information was gathered from 91 people (63 males and 28 females). The informants, except the healers, were selected by using purposive sampling method and 26 key informants were selected randomly and no appointment was made prior to the visits. Ethnobotanical data were collected using semi-structured interviews with informants, field observations, guided field walk, Group discussion, with traditional medicine practitioners. The ethnomedicinal use of 85 plant species was documented in the study area used as cure for 61 ailments. They are distributed across 79 genera and 44 families. Of these, 54 medicinal plants were reported for human ailments treatment, eight for livestock and 23 for both human and livestock ailment treatment.. Informant consensus analysis showed that ailments like rabies, poisoning, snake bite, evil spirit and evil eye, wound, body swelling, intestinal parasite and pneumonia and jaundice were major diseases in the study area respectively. The principal threatening factors for medicinal plants reported were agricultural expansion and fire