APPROCHE ETHNOBOTANIQUE DES PLANTES MEDICINALES EN KABYLIE (WILAYA DE TIZI OUZOU, ALGERIE)

The traditional medicinal knowledge, accumulated through time and passed ontorural populations, is as rich and varied as the biological resources.
The disappearance of this oral ancestral knowledge would be an irreparable loss for the humanity, if no effort is deployed for its faithful and urgent transcription.
This established fact, incited us to conduct an ethnobotanic study at the level of the daïras of Boghni and Ouadhias (wilaya of Tizi Ouzou), via a questionnaire distributed in 500 copies to 152 inhabitants of 43 villages within 8 administrative centres of municipalities.
This study allowed to identify 114 healing plants belonging to 52 botanical families, among which 70% are wild types, still used in this rural region.
The traditional therapeutic knowledge is an oral family inheritance, dominating in particular among the old and illiterate women.
The conservation of this heritage in process of erosion is more than indispensable.

International Symposium on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants – SIPAM2009

A. Derridj, G. Ghemouri, R. Meddour, O. Meddour-Sahar

Kabylia, traditional herbal medicine, healing plants, ethnobotanic inquiry, rural population

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2010.853.52