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Diversity of medicinal plants used as male contraceptives: An initiative towards herbal contraceptives
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Diversity of medicinal plants used as male contraceptives: An initiative towards herbal contraceptives |
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Zaman, Wajid ; Department of Life Sciences, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, Gyeongbuk, Republic of Korea Ahmad, Mushtaq ; Department of Plant Sciences, Quaid- i- Azam University Islamabad, 45320, Pakistan Zafar, Muhammad ; Department of Plant Sciences, Quaid- i- Azam University Islamabad, 45320, Pakistan Amina, Hafiza ; Department of Plant Sciences, Quaid- i- Azam University Islamabad, 45320, Pakistan ,, Lubna ; Department of Plant Sciences, Quaid- i- Azam University Islamabad, 45320, Pakistan Saqib, Saddam ; Department of Plant Sciences, Quaid- i- Azam University Islamabad, 45320, Pakistan Ullah, Fazal ; Department of Plant Sciences, Quaid- i- Azam University Islamabad, 45320, Pakistan Ayaz, Asma ; State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, 430062, China Bahadur, Saraj ; Wuzhishan National Long-Term Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Research Station, College of Forestry, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China Park, SeonJoo ; Department of Life Sciences, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, Gyeongbuk, Republic of Korea |
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Male contraceptive, Medicinal plants, Population, Traditional knowledge |
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<p>In the recent era, population control is a global issue as well as national community health concern. Plants are being used as a source of medicines by human beings since ancient time. This study highlights the collection, identification and diversity of medicinal plants concerning their traditional knowledge to get better access to the herbal male contraception. Local informants and traditional health practitioners were consulted for information about the local names, distribution, part used and mode of utilization of the medicinal plant. To select plants with high medicinal uses, different quantitative measurements i.e. Relative Frequency of Citation (RFC), Disease Consensus Index (DCI) and descriptive methods of Jaccard Index (JI) was performed. A total of 100 plant species (used for infertility by the local communities) belonging to 50 families and 91 genera were collected. Jaccard Index results showed that 28 plant species were reported for the first time used as male contraceptives in Pakistan. The frequency of citation (FC) value ranged from 35 to 56. Plants with high Relative frequency of citation (RFC) and Disease Consensus index (DCI) values showed a high consensus for the antifertility among informants and THPs. Our study is focused on the diversity and priority of medicinal plants as male contraceptives.</p><p> </p> |
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Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge (IJTK) 2022-07-26 07:24:30 |
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application/pdf application/pdf http://op.niscair.res.in/index.php/IJTK/article/view/31454 |
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Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge (IJTK); ##issue.vol## 21, ##issue.no## 3 (2022): Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge |
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en |
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