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Analysis of Medicinal Plants and Traditional Knowledge Development in Ethiopia

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  • 1. Department of Plant Genetics, Ethiopia Biodiversity Institute Harar Biodiversity, Addis Ababa, Amhara, Ethiopia.

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Abstract: As the review conducted Ethiopia has richened by medicinal plant species and traditional knowledge that have a significant role in the management of various human and livestock diseases. Medicinal plants are vastly used by the communities particularly rural communities to treat various human and livestock aliments.Medicinal plants also important for the development of modern medicine. Traditional knowledge is the accumulation of communities’ knowledge according to their cultures, beliefs, and experiences. Different parts of medicinal plants are used for traditional remedies in order to cure human beings and livestock. Traditional knowledge and medicinal plants are critically threatened and extinct due to overgrazing, charcoal production, deforestation, urbanization, agricultural expansion, and fire wood collection. Traditional medicinal plants and associated knowledge can be conserved using either in-situ or ex-situ conservationmethods. Therefore, create awareness among the local people about the use of medicinal plants and the associated knowledge to ensure sustainable harvesting of medicinal plants. Conducting ethnobotanical research and documented medicinal plants and indigenous knowledges is very important for conserve.

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10.54105/ijapsr.A4033.124123
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2582-7618

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2023-12-15
Manuscript received on 10 November 2023 | Revised Manuscript received on 03 December 2023 | Manuscript Accepted on 15 December 2023 | Manuscript published on 30 December 2023

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