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Table 3 Medicinal plants used for animal and human health by the Jordanian Badu

From: Livestock, medicinal plants and rangeland viability in Jordan’s Badia: through the lens of traditional and local knowledge

Plant Name

Percentage

Treatments (use)

Preparations

  

Types

Percentage

Ways

Percentage

Artemisia herba-alba

90

GIT

64

Infusion

1

Respiratory

6

Boiled and Infusion

69

General pain

1

Compress

1

Wounds

1

Inhalant

1

Achillea fragrantissima

85

GIT

63

Boiled and Infusion

68

Respiratory

5

Inhalant

1

General pain

1

Compress

 

Artemisia judaica L

42.5

GIT

34

Boiled and Infusion

34

  

Powder intake

1

Ducrosia anethifolia (DC.) Boiss

35

General pain

35

Smoking

35

Mentha longifolia L

4

GIT

3

Boiled and Infusion

2

  

Smoking

1

Ecballium elaterium (L.) A.Rich

11

Respiratory

1

Drops

4

Jaundice

8

Drops

5

Citrullus colocynthis (L.) Schrad.

9

GIT

1

Compress

6

General pain

6

Bath

1

Achillea santolina L

69

GIT

55

Boiled and Infusion

54

Matricaria aurea (Loefl.) Sch.Bip

39

GIT

28

Boiled and Infusion

29

Respiratory

3

Inhalant

2

Paronychia argentea Lam.

14

Renal

11

Boiled and Infusion

11

Thymus bovei Benth

26

GIT

17

Boiled and Infusion

19

Respiratory

3

Inhalant

2

Cleome droserifolia (Forssk.) Delile

3

GIT

1

Boiled and Infusion

1

Wounds and injuries

1

Compress

1

Capparis leucophylla DC.

1

Renal

1

Boiled and Infusion

1

Allium sativum

15

GIT

1

Powder intake

1

General pain

1

Compress

10

Jaundice

10

Sterilize

1

Urtica pilulifera

5

General pain

4

Boiled and Infusion

1

    

Compress

1