Internal Medicine: Open Access
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ISSN: 2165-8048
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ISSN: 2165-8048
+44 1300 500008
Tegegne Bayih
Researcher and Instructor at Hawassa University,
Ethiopia
Research Article
Assessment of Traditional Practices of Healers to Treat Human Illness in Shashamene Town in Ethiopia
Author(s): Tegegne Bayih and Abduselam UsmanTegegne Bayih and Abduselam Usman
The study was conducted to investigate traditional practices for the usage of medicinal plants to protect commonly occurred human disease. 41 respondents were randomly selected for questionnaires and healers were used for secondary data source as they had indigenous knowledge. Around the study area there were about 75 medicinal plant species were found. A number of botanicals have been used by people where the study was occurred and mostly the respondents have said medicinal plants crashed and taken in oral to minimizing the headache, stomach pain, gastric and Diarrhea, moreover these botanical were traditionally accepted to take as an alternative way to be treated from different infectious disease. More of leave of medicinal plants were used for traditional treatment as it is simple to be used either in the form of crushed or directly chewing. In the preset study Herbs were mostly us.. View More»
DOI:
10.4172/2165-8048.1000278