Ethnobutanical Analysis of Medicinal Plants in Kashan
Subject Areas : drugmansureh ghavam 1 , sedigheh kiani 2
1 - Assistant Professor, department of Range and Watershed, Faculty of natural resources and Geology, University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran..
2 - Assistant Professor of Geography and Ecotourism Department, Faculty of natural resources and Geology, University of Kashan. Kashan. Iran
Keywords: Kashan, Medicinal Plants, Treatment, people,
Abstract :
Since ancient times, plants have been one of the first and most accessible sources of treatment. Because humans are a part of nature, it is definitely the nature of the plant for every disease. Accordingly, the history of treating diseases with medicinal herbs dates back to the history of human life on the planet. The present study was conducted with the aim of analyzing the anthropometric characteristics of medicinal plants in Kashan and recognizing the most important and most used plants by the people of this city in 1395. The present research is applied in a descriptive-analytical and survey method. The main tool of research is a questionnaire with 97 items whose content validity is confined to experts and its reliability is 0.891 by the Cronbach's alpha test. Approved. SPSS software was used to analyze the data. The sample size was calculated using 336 Cochran formula, randomly distributed among households in Kashan city. The research findings indicated that 45.5% of male respondents and 54.5% of women and the largest group Responsible Sunni was in the group of 25-36 years old and the lowest was among the age group above 65 years. Also, the results showed that the mint, with 6.63%, Kheshir with 57%, Bulls with 4.58% and Thyme with 49%, respectively. The willingness, belief, trust, recognition, satisfaction and spending on the purchase of Medicinal Plants by the people of this city prove the importance of medicinal herbs and the tendency of people to treat traditional medicine more than ever
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3. Akbari N, Parvin N, Sereshti M, Safdari F. Study about different types of medicinal plants used by elderly people in Shahrekord city, Iran, 2009. J Shahrekord Univ Med Sci. 2011; 12 (4) :26-32. In Persian
4. Amin.Gh .1997.Traditional herbs of Iran. Publications Research Deputy of Ministry of Health and Medical Education. 230 pages. In Persian
5. Hossein zare Zardeini؛ Seyed Fathollah Amiri Aghdaie (2018)Investigating effective factors on improvement and development of medicinal Pants in Iran (case study Isfahan city). Quarterly Journal of New Marketing Research, 4 (1): 214-195. In Persian
6. Amerneqhad, H. 2010. Prevalence of consumer preferences for medicinal plants in Sari. National Conference on Medicinal Plants. Sari University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources. In Persian
7. Bakhtiari, Z. 2010. Attitude of patients about herbs in Isfahan, Journal of Herbal Drugs, 1: 47-50. In Persian
8. Haidarzadeh, S., Mohammadi, H., Shah Nooshi, N. & Karbasi A (2017). A Survey on the Effective Factors on the Level of Consumption of Medicinal Products. Journal of Agricultural Economics, 10 (2): 49-68. In Persian
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10. Radjhan, Mohammad Sadiq (2003). Herbal medicine and treatment. Alavi Publications .311 pages
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12. Sajedipoor A.A. & Mashayekhi .S( 2015). Investigation on supply and demand in medicinal plants market (Case study: Hamedan, Markazi and Lorestan provinces). Iranian Journal of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Vol. 31, No. 4, 2015. In Persian
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15. Qavam, M. And Soleimani Nejad, Z. (2018). Study on the amount of herbs used in rangeland ecosystems and determine the professional characteristics of suppliers of these plants in Isfahan. Journal of the Human and the Environment. In Persian
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27. Chakraborty, A. and Chattopadhyay, S. 2008. Stimulation of menthol production in Mentha piperita cell culture. In vitro cellular and developmental biology-plant 44: 518-524
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30. Sen S., Chakraborty R., De B. 2011. Challenges and Opportunities in the Advancement of Herbal Medicine: India’s position and Role in a Global Context, Journal of Herbal Medicine, 1(3 –4): 67-75.
