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Abstract

Assessment of Traditional Practices of Healers to Treat Human Illness in Shashamene Town in Ethiopia

Tegegne Bayih and Abduselam Usman

The study was conducted to investigate traditional practices for the usage of medicinal plants to protect commonly occurred human disease. 41 respondents were randomly selected for questionnaires and healers were used for secondary data source as they had indigenous knowledge. Around the study area there were about 75 medicinal plant species were found. A number of botanicals have been used by people where the study was occurred and mostly the respondents have said medicinal plants crashed and taken in oral to minimizing the headache, stomach pain, gastric and Diarrhea, moreover these botanical were traditionally accepted to take as an alternative way to be treated from different infectious disease. More of leave of medicinal plants were used for traditional treatment as it is simple to be used either in the form of crushed or directly chewing. In the preset study Herbs were mostly usable for traditional treatments as compared with small and large trees. Healers were people who had Indigenous Knowledge or they were experienced to select traditional medicinal plants from their natural habit; additionally, they are recognized by local people as traditional doctor who can give the appropriate treatment for commonly occurred infectious among people.