A PRELIMINARY CLASSIFICATION OF THE HEALING POTENTIAL OF MEDICINAL-PLANTS, BASED ON A RATIONAL ANALYSIS OF AN ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL FIELD SURVEY AMONG BEDOUINS IN THE NEGEV DESERT, ISRAEL
A PRELIMINARY CLASSIFICATION OF THE HEALING POTENTIAL OF MEDICINAL-PLANTS, BASED ON A RATIONAL ANALYSIS OF AN ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL FIELD SURVEY AMONG BEDOUINS IN THE NEGEV DESERT, ISRAEL
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DOI：
10.1016/0378-8741(86)90094-2
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发表时间：
1986-06-01
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
PALEWITCH, D
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作者：
FRIEDMAN, J;YANIV, Z;PALEWITCH, D
在对内盖夫沙漠的贝都因人进行民族药理学调查的过程中，人们注意到，除了使用现代医疗服务外，还使用药用植物。因此，我们认为有必要调查内盖夫贝都因人中草药的现状，并评估所用植物的相对效率。通过询问曾经接受治疗的患者来评估工厂的有效性被认为是困难和不切实际的。因此，每个受访者首先被要求自愿提供有关植物及其用途的信息。接下来，为了避免记忆力下降的风险，研究人员宣读了一份50种常用物种的清单，并要求提供信息的人提供他熟悉的任何草药的信息。在27位被调查者提到的81种植物中，有41种被3个以上的科学家命名或认可。这些物种的安排，根据举报人的百分比，建议相同的药用用途为给定的物种相比，举报人的总数报告任何种类的使用该植物。所获得的比率被定义为保真度水平（FL）。植物的等级优先级（ROP）来自这些FL值。测定所遇到的植物的相对流行水平（RPL），并相应地将植物指定为“流行的”或“不流行的”。根据RPL值进一步调整FL值。我们发现，Phagnalon rupestre的树皮被广泛用于诱导故意烧伤，以治愈各种疾病（ROP = 100），而Teucrium polium或Artemisia herba-alba的芽的输液被用于较小程度的缓解胃病（ROP = 66和56，分别）。因为后两种物种显示出相当高的ROP，并且被认为是直接治愈的，所以它们值得进一步研究。我们的民族药理学调查的其他结果和影响进行了适当的讨论。
In the course of an ethnopharmacological survey carried out among the Bedouins of the Negev desert, it was noticed that in addition to the use of the modern medical services, medicinal plants were also being employed. We deemed it worthwhile, therfore, to investigate the current status of herbal medicine among the Negev Bedouins and to evaluate the relative efficiency of the plants used. To evaluate plant effectiveness by enquiries among patients once treated was found to be difficult and impractical. Hence, each interviewed informant was first requested to volunteer information on the plants and their uses. Next, to avoid the risk of memory failure, a list of 50 commonly used species was read out and the informant was asked to provide information on any that were familiar to him as medicinal herbs. Of 81 plant species mentioned by our 27 informants, 41 were named or recognized by more than 3. These species were arranged in accordance with the percentage of informants suggesting the same medicinal use for a given species as compared with the total number of informants reporting any sort of use for that plant. The obtained ratio was defined as the fidelity level (FL). The rank-order priority (ROP) of the plants was derived from these FL values. The relative popularity level (RPL) of the plants encountered was determined and plants were accordingly designated as "popular" or "unpopular". FL values were further adjusted, according to RPL value. We found that the bark of Phagnalon rupestre is widely used to induce deliberate burns for the healing of various ailments (ROP = 100), while infusion of the shoots of Teucrium polium, or of Artemisia herba-alba is employed to a lesser degeee (ROP = 66 and 56, respectively) to relieve stomach disorders. Because the latter two species show fairly high ROP and are seen to be directly curative, they merit further investigation. Additional findings and implications of our ethnopharmacological survey are duly discussed.