COMMON FOLK MEDICINAL AND ETHNOMEDICINAL USES OF THIRTY MEDICINAL PLANTS OF DISTRICTS DADU AND JAMSHORO, SINDH, PAKISTAN.

Abstract

An ethnobotanical survey was carried out in Districts Dadu and Jamshoro. Sindh Province of Pakistan. In this region local people since their forefathers are using medicinal plants and their different parts for the treatment of many diseases. Although modern methods to treat disease by homeopathic and allopathic drugs reduced the use of local remedies but still countable people are using folk remedies. The knowledge about the use of medicinal plants and their remedies of these two districts are still remained untouched by ethnobotanist, ethnopharmacologist and pharmacist. Thirty (30) medicinal plants were documented which are mostly used in the treatment of many diseases by the local people of district Dadu and Jamshoro.