World flora serves for a living organism as a source of different uses such as for shelter, medicine food and so on. People in a different part of the globe used plant remedy to cure different illnesses such as eye sicknesses from the time memorial. A review proposed to identify medicinal plants conventionally used to cure eye infection cure implied for conservation and sustainable use was carried out. Different resource materials such as, Books, journals, online available materials, reports and other relevant published and unpublished documents were used to organize this review. 23 medicinal plants conventionally used for the treatment of eye health problem were methodologically reviewed from Ethiopia studied at different times and places. Accordingly, Lamiaceae, Solanaceae, Euphorbiaceae and Fabaceae were the leading family medicinally used for the treatment of eye disease by the local people in Ethiopia. Oral and dermal route of application were the dominant application and crushing was the principal method of traditional medicinal plant preparation for eye disease. The remedy for eye infection cure is prepared from a lone plant and or other ingredients. The most frequently used plant parts for the preparation of remedies were leaf and root. Herbs, shrubs and trees are used for eye disease treatment in their decreasing order respectively. The flora of Ethiopia is rich enough as a source of traditional therapeutic preparation intended to the treatment of disease such as eye defect. This calls for a practical measure of conservation method for sustainability use and modern medicinal extraction.
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abstract = {World flora serves for a living organism as a source of different uses such as for shelter, medicine food and so on. People in a different part of the globe used plant remedy to cure different illnesses such as eye sicknesses from the time memorial. A review proposed to identify medicinal plants conventionally used to cure eye infection cure implied for conservation and sustainable use was carried out. Different resource materials such as, Books, journals, online available materials, reports and other relevant published and unpublished documents were used to organize this review. 23 medicinal plants conventionally used for the treatment of eye health problem were methodologically reviewed from Ethiopia studied at different times and places. Accordingly, Lamiaceae, Solanaceae, Euphorbiaceae and Fabaceae were the leading family medicinally used for the treatment of eye disease by the local people in Ethiopia. Oral and dermal route of application were the dominant application and crushing was the principal method of traditional medicinal plant preparation for eye disease. The remedy for eye infection cure is prepared from a lone plant and or other ingredients. The most frequently used plant parts for the preparation of remedies were leaf and root. Herbs, shrubs and trees are used for eye disease treatment in their decreasing order respectively. The flora of Ethiopia is rich enough as a source of traditional therapeutic preparation intended to the treatment of disease such as eye defect. This calls for a practical measure of conservation method for sustainability use and modern medicinal extraction.},
year = {2023}
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TY - JOUR T1 - Review of Medicinal Plants Used for the Treatment of Eye Disease in Ethiopia: Implication for Conservation and Sustainable Use AU - Fitsumbirhan Tewelde Y1 - 2023/06/27 PY - 2023 N1 - https://doi.org/10.11648/j.aff.20231203.15 DO - 10.11648/j.aff.20231203.15 T2 - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries JF - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries JO - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries SP - 91 EP - 98 PB - Science Publishing Group SN - 2328-5648 UR - https://doi.org/10.11648/j.aff.20231203.15 AB - World flora serves for a living organism as a source of different uses such as for shelter, medicine food and so on. People in a different part of the globe used plant remedy to cure different illnesses such as eye sicknesses from the time memorial. A review proposed to identify medicinal plants conventionally used to cure eye infection cure implied for conservation and sustainable use was carried out. Different resource materials such as, Books, journals, online available materials, reports and other relevant published and unpublished documents were used to organize this review. 23 medicinal plants conventionally used for the treatment of eye health problem were methodologically reviewed from Ethiopia studied at different times and places. Accordingly, Lamiaceae, Solanaceae, Euphorbiaceae and Fabaceae were the leading family medicinally used for the treatment of eye disease by the local people in Ethiopia. Oral and dermal route of application were the dominant application and crushing was the principal method of traditional medicinal plant preparation for eye disease. The remedy for eye infection cure is prepared from a lone plant and or other ingredients. The most frequently used plant parts for the preparation of remedies were leaf and root. Herbs, shrubs and trees are used for eye disease treatment in their decreasing order respectively. The flora of Ethiopia is rich enough as a source of traditional therapeutic preparation intended to the treatment of disease such as eye defect. This calls for a practical measure of conservation method for sustainability use and modern medicinal extraction. VL - 12 IS - 3 ER -
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