Ethnobotany of wild edible plants in Soro District of Hadiya Zone, southern Ethiopia

Hankiso, Mulatu; Warkineh, Bikila; Asfaw, Zemede; Debella, Asfaw

doi:10.1186/s13002-023-00588-2

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Table 9 Some nutraceutical wild edible plants used for the treatment of human livestock ailments

From: Ethnobotany of wild edible plants in Soro District of Hadiya Zone, southern Ethiopia

Edible plants with medicinal use reports	Disease	Human/Livestock	Part used in TM in the study area	Part used as food in the study area	Reference for use in TM
Ageratum conyzoides	Diarrhea	Human	Leaf	Leaf	[53]
Amaranthus caudatus	Michi	Human	Seed	Seed	[12, 53]
Amaranthus caudatus	Cancer	Human	Leaf	Leaf	[12, 53]
Balanites aegyptiaca	Epistaxis (Nasal bleeding), Headache, Stomach ache	Human	Resin, Fruit	Fruit	[54]
Bidens pilosa	Internal cancer, Michi	Human	Leaf	Leaf	[54]
	Constipation	Human	Aboveground	Aboveground	[54]
	Malaria	Human	Aboveground	Aboveground	[54, 55]
Carissa spinarum	Amoebiasis, Swelling	Human	Stem bark, Root, Fruit	Fruit	[53]
Carissa spinarum	Swelling	Livestock	Root, Fruit	Fruit	–
Moringa stenopetala (Naturalizing in the wild habitat having been brought from another area)	Malaria	Human	Leaf, Root	Leaf	[56, 57]
	Hypertension	Human	Leaf	Leaf
	Diabetes mellitus (DM)	Human	Leaf	Leaf	[53]
	Mumps	Human	Leaf	Leaf
	Abdominal pain, Stomach ache	Human	Leaf	Leaf	[53]
Solanum nigrum	Heart disease	Human	Aboveground	Aboveground
	Breast cancer, Skin cancer	Human	Leaf	Aboveground	–
	Internal cancer	Human	Leaf	Leaf
	Ascariasis	Human	Leaf	Leaf	[53]
	Abdominal pain Stomach ache	Human	Leaf	Leaf	[53, 56]
	Conjunctivitis/Eye disease	Human	Leaf	Leaf	–
	Pityriasis	Human	Leaf	Leaf	–
Ximenia americana	Common cold and head ache	Human	Leaf, Stem bark	Fruit	[4, 57]
	Lumpy skin disease (LSD)	Livestock	Leaf, Stem bark	Fruit	[56, 58]
	Tooth disease	Human	Fruit	Fruit	[55,56,57]
	Abdominal pain Stomachache	Human	Fruit	Fruit	[55, 56]
	Pyelonephritis	Human	Stem bark	Fruit	–
	Diarrhea	Human	Leaf, Root bark	Fruit	–
	Spleen enlargement	Human	Root bark	Fruit	–
	Malaria	Human	Root bark	Fruit	[57]
	Aspiration pneumonia	Livestock	Root bark	Fruit	–
	Pyelonephritis	Human	Leaf	Fruit	–

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