« Etude Ethnobotanique des plantes médicinales utilisées dans le traitement de la lithiase urinaire dans la wilaya de Mostaganem »

Abstract

An ethnobotanical survey was conducted in the City of Mostaganem, to initiate a floristic and ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used by the local population in the treatment of urinary diseases (urolithiasis) using a questionnaire form collecting information. on the medicinal plant, the disease and on the person being investigated. This ethnobotanical study was carried out on a sample of 30 people spread over the different areas of the city for two weeks in April. The results obtained allowed us to draw up a catalog of 08 medicinal species used in indigenous therapeutic recipes and to analyze the herbal therapeutic treatments used by the population concerned. The purpose of this study is to help scientific research to produce herbal medicines for urinary diseases.