Indigenous knowledge and folk use of medicinal plants by the tribal communities of Hazar Nao Forest, Malakand District, North Pakistan

• DOI: 10.5897/jmpr.9000782
• Publication Date: 2011-04-04
• Authors: Waheed Murad; Ashfaq Ahmad; Syed Abdullah Gilani; Mir Ajab Khan
• Keywords: Traditional Knowledge

Regular field surveys were conducted for two consecutive years in the villages of Brah, Totay, P khel, Mekhband, Kot and Haryankot Hazar Nao forest. is located at about 23 km west tribal zone Dargai, Malakand District, Pakistan. Although, majority local inhabitants study area depend on plants to treat human ailments, indigenous knowledge still not documented. Therefore, present carried out enlist plant species this un-explored record their medicinal uses before ethnomedicinal information are lost. Information gathered through formal informal interviews questionnaires filled from people. The folk 75 recorded various ailments.

Key words: Pakistan, Malakand, Nao, plant, ailments.