Hagenia abyssinica is a species of flowering plant native to the highelevation afromontane regions of central and eastern africa. Jstor is part of ithaka, a notforprofit organization helping the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways. Inflorescences are collected mainly from the wild, dried and stored, and can be used throughout the year. Characterization of constituents and anthelmintic properties of.
Pdf folklore medicinal uses of hagenia abyssinica bruce. Effectiveness of watershed management interventions in. An ethnobotanical study was carried out to document medicinal uses of hagenia abyssinica by rural communities of north and southeastern. The distribution of genetic diversity among natural populations is significantly shaped by geographical and environmental heterogeneity. Aug 11, 2016 three of these tms were directly referenced as being used for the treatment of dm.
Type 2 diabetes mellitus t2dm patients are increasingly using herbal remedies due to the fact that sticking to the therapeutic regimens is becoming awkward. This research work is designed to investigate the antibacterial activity of h. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. Hagenia abyssinica is an important medicinal plant that the traditional society relied on for generations as a traditional medicine for various types of worm infections. In vivo evaluation of wound healing and antiinflammatory. These can be included either as standalone text files, humanreadable headers or in the appropriate machinereadable metadata fields within text or binary files as long as those fields can be easily. Pdf eightyearold hagenia abyssinica from mt intoto. Assessment and integration of genetic, morphological and. People in different parts of the indigenous to mountain regions of eastern, central and southern world. Trees are either female with flowers coloured in red, or male, with male with characteristic flowers in white or orange to brown. List of various diseases cured by harrisonia abyssinica. Demographic history and population genetic structure of.
Hagenia abyssinica new zealand plant conservation network. We further identified five plantbased tms relevant in the treatment and management of dm. Trypanocidal and antileukaemic effects of the essential oils of hagenia abyssinica. The most widely used vernacular name of coccinia abyssinica is anchote spelt ancootee in afan oromo. It is found in the democratic republic of congo, sudan and ethiopia, and south to malawi, zambia and zimbabwe. Gmel, is an important medicinal plant producing bioactive compounds. Prevalence and correlates of herbal medicine use among type 2. Hagenia abyssinica rosaceae is known in ethiopia by name kosso amharic, or ducca oromifa. Stephania abyssinica is a climbing shrub with stems up to 10 metres long that twine into the surrounding vegetation for support610. The record derives from rjp data supplied on 20111018 which does not establish this name either as an accepted name or as a synonym record 24343 with original publication details. Compositions having therapeutic value derived from plant material from one or more of glinus lotoides, ruta chalepensis, hagenia abyssinica, andor millettia ferruginea are provided. Ethiopia is one of the six centres of biodiversity in the world with several topographies, climatic conditions and various ethnic cultures. We used 11 polymorphic microsatellites to estimate genetic variability and evaluate gene flow among natural populations of h. Alternatively, you can also download the pdf file directly to your computer, from where it can be opened using a pdf reader.
Current distribution, regeneration and management practice of. Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine ethnomedicinal uses of hagenia abyssinica bruce j. Highly valued by locals for its uses, hagenia abyssinica is often left standing when forest is cleared. The otc potency range of kousso is 3x30x, 2c30c, 200c, 1m, 10m, 50m, and cm. Local tree resources are exploited and used intensively for medicinal purposes. Throughout history, hagenia abyssinica has been used as an anthelmintic in ethiopia and other parts of africa. The key objectives of this study were to outline the population genetic structure and to investigate the effects of historical and current factors in shaping the population structure of an endemic tropical tree, hagenia abyssinica. The forest areas are also well known for their flora and fauna diversity as well as endemicity. The pdf file you selected should load here if your web browser has a pdf reader plugin installed for example, a recent version of adobe acrobat reader. To download the pdf, click the download link below. Throughout history, hagenia abyssinica has been used as an anthelmintic in ethiopia and other parts of. There have been previous efforts to bring this species into conservation and propagation programmes, however, due to its increasing rarity and limited cultivation, there is a great need to increase conservation work of this highly utilised species which is a key part of abyesinica afromontane forests. Harrisonia abyssinica herb uses, benefits, cures, side. However, studies towards herbal medicine use by diabetic patients is scarce in ethiopia.
Isolation of an anthelmintic compound from leucosidea sericea. Antioxidant and antiproliferative properties of hagenia. Research open access ethnomedicinal uses of hagenia. Text is available under the creative commons attributionsharealike license. Systema naturae, sive regna tria naturae systematice proposita per classes. Gmel, is an important medicinal plant producing bioactive compounds that have been traditionally used by african communities as a remedy for gastrointestinal ailments in both humans and animals. There have been previous efforts to bring this species into conservation and propagation programmes, however, due to its increasing rarity and limited. Assessment and integration of genetic, morphological and demographic variation in hagenia abyssinica bruce j.
The dried female flowers of hagenia abyssinica bruce j. This page was last edited on 18 january 2015, at 21. Antimicrobial properties and toxicity of hagenia abyssinica. Hagenia abyssinica in the germplasm resources information network grin, u. Highest fidelity level values were recorded for zehneria scabra 95% and hagenia abyssinica 93. Pdf ecology and regeneration of the subalpine hagenia. Guizotia abyssinica niger seed, ramtilla pfaf plant database.
Media in category hagenia abyssinicathe following 17 files are in this category, out of 17 total. Pdf phytochemical analysis and antimicrobial activity of. Stand structure and regeneration of the subalpine hagenia abyssinica forests of mt. Measuring soil fertility under hagenia abyssinica bruce jf gmel. Usda, ars, germplasm resources information network. An infusion of the flowers is used widely against tapeworms, and in ethiopia this has been in use for so long that the master has taken his kosso is a well. It also has a disjunct distribution in the high mountains of east africa from. Hagenia is an endangered monotypic genus endemic to the topical mountains of africa.
It also has a disjunct distribution in the high mountains of east africa from sudan and ethiopia in the north, through kenya, uganda, rwanda, burundi, democratic republic of congo, and tanzania, to malawi and zambia in the south. Ethnobotanical study is a real and encourageable in. Hagenia abyssinica description iucn conservation status hagenia abyssinica is a highly ornamental tree speciesother names with large attractive red flowers. Chloroplast dna haplotype diversity and postglacial recolonization of hagenia abyssinica bruce j. Ecology and regeneration of the subalpine hagenia abyssinica forests of mt. Some of the species are highly resistant to drought fao, 1996. Highly valued by locals for its uses, hagenia abyssinica. African journal of microbiology research a comparative. Genetic diversity within and among 12 populations of the dioecious tropical tree species hagenia abyssinica bruce j.
Podocarpus falcatus was ranked first in a direct matrix ranking exercise of multipurpose medicinal plants. This species at kew specimens of hagenia abyssinica flowers, stem, bark and wood are held in kews. Study on ethnobotany and phenotypic diversity in anchote. Hagenia abyssinica is a species of flowering plant native to the highelevation afromontane. In kahuzi biega national park, the species is found between 2000 and 2600 m altitude. Effect of row and plant spacings and nipping of tips on the seed yield of niger guizotia abyssinica cass. The species recorded in flora of ethiopia since 1995 include c. Hagenia abyssinica is a characteristic species of mountain forests in the albertine rift. Us6811795b2 anticancer extracts and pharmaceutical. The use of a paste made from the plant and used on the eyes by. Phytochemical analysis and antimicrobial activity of hagenia abyssinica. Optical character recognition ocr enables you automatically convert the documents into searchable text or word format by scanning the documents and feed the scanned images onto the abyssinica ocr software. We reserve the right to alter metrics in future releases.
The tree is a multipurpose dioecious tree and can grow up to 20 m in length. Studies of folklore uses of medicinal plants were carried out to collect information on the medicinal uses of hagenia abyssinica bruce j. This enables them to work in many applications that do not make use of graphite or opentype stylistic sets. The complete chloroplast genome sequence of an endemic. Evaluation of the effects of 80% methanolic leaf extract of. Dec, 20 see release notes for a list of the changes made to version 1. Medicinal plants native to africa used in historical andor contemporary healing traditions. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the. An ethnobotanical study was carried out to document medicinal uses of hagenia. Soil was sampled under the canopy of hagenia abyssinica. Trypanocidal and antileukaemic effects of the essential oils.
Three ethiopian medicinal plants hagenia abyssinica, leonotis ocymifolia and moringa stenopetala were selected for this study. Apr 28, 2004 read micropropagation of hagenia abyssinica. Media in category hagenia abyssinica the following 17 files are in this category, out of 17 total. The bale mountains of ethiopia by stefan siebert, department of botany, university of zululand and syd ramdhani, department of botany, rhodes university like mountains on top of mountains, the. Analysis of genetic diversity in the endangered tropical. Antioxidant and antiproliferative properties of hagenia abyssinica roots and their potentially active components. Trypanocidal and antileukaemic effects of the essential. Caracterisations structurale, floristique et biomasse. An attractive african tree with soft leaves and hanging flower sprays, hagenia abyssinica also has many uses. This study intended to characterize hagenia monospecific forest by providing an account for its floristic composition, structure and biomass. Ethiopian communities highly depend on local plant resources to secure their subsistence and health. This list may not reflect recent changes learn more. Therefore, the aim of the current study was to explore the prevalence and correlates of herbal medicine use with different sociodemographic.
The species is hermaphrodite has both male and female organs and is pollinated by insects. It is in leaf from may to october, in flower from august to september, and the seeds ripen from september to october. Future versions of the font may result in different lines, line spacing, or paragraph lengths. Hagenia abyssinica is of disease since prehistoric times. Medicinal plants used in traditional medicine by oromo. Hagenia abyssinica is indigenous to montane regions of eastern, central and southern africa, mostly above 2000 m altitude. How harrisonia abyssinica is effective for various diseases is listed in repertory format. In an experiment in makete district tanzania, grain yield of wheat was measured on eight different farms for a twoyear period. Spatial distribution of genetic diver sity in populations of hagenia abyssinica bruce j. Floristicinventoryoftropicalforestinrwanda20yearsafter. Sep 12, 2019 abyssinica sil is also available through the typetuner web service, which allows you to choose your selection of smart font features and download a font with those features preset. This study provides insight into the medicinal importance of hagenia abyssinica as well as the degree of threat on its population.
Gmel rosaceae is distributed in the highlands of ethiopia. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. Excel, powerpoint, rtf, and txt files to pdf file format. The experiment was conducted at the forestry research center, ethiopia in 2008. Pdf antioxidant and antiproliferative properties of. Prevalence and correlates of herbal medicine use among. The following 82 pages are in this category, out of 82 total. Complete list of references for duke, handbook of energy crops. These data presents some of the first information on forest regeneration following goldmining in tropicalafrica. However, there was no scientific report on wound healing activity of hagenia abyssinica. Names of harrisonia abyssinica in various languages of the world are also given. Uses, benefits, cures, side effects, nutrients in harrisonia abyssinica. Evaluation of the effects of 80% methanolic leaf extract of caylusea abyssinica fresen.
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