Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine / 2018 / Article / Tab 9 / Research Article
Use and Conservation of Medicinal Plants by Indigenous People of Gozamin Wereda, East Gojjam Zone of Amhara Region, Ethiopia: An Ethnobotanical Approach Table 9 Lists of nutraceutical (used as both food and medicine) plants.
Botanical names Family Local names Uses as food Disease treated Allium sativum Alliaceae Nech shinkurt Bulb and leaf as food Cough, evil eye, asthma Brassica carinata Brassicaceae Gomen Leaf/seed as food; oil Skin rush Brassica nigra Brassicaceae Sinafich Used as spice Abdominal pain Capsicum annum Solanaceae Qaria Fruit used as spice Vomiting, dysentery Carissa spinarum Apocynaceae Agam Edible fruit Evil eye Coffea arabica Rubiaceae Bunna As stimulant Wound Eragrostis tef Poaceae Teff Human food Bone fracture Ficus sur Moraceae Shoal Edible fruit Dysentery Foeniculum vulgare Brassicaceae Ensilal Used as spice Abdominal pain Guizotia abyssinica Asteraceae Nug Sources of oil and fodder Leech Hordeum vulgare Poaceae Gebis Food and fodder Gastritis Linum usitatissimum Linaceae Telba Oil crop and fodder Gastritis Lepidium sativum Brassicaceae Feto Used as spices/food Diarrhea Lupinus albus Fabaceae Gibito Seed used as food Hypertension Nigella sativa Apiaceae Tiqur-azmud Used as spice Common cold, asthma Prunus persica Rosaceae Kok Edible fruit Diarrhea Rhamnus prinoides Rhamnaceae Gesho Stimulant/spices Leech, tonsils, skin infection Ruta chalepensis Rutaceae Tila-adam Seed/leaf as spices Stomachache Urtica simensis Urticaceae Samma Edible leaf Gastritis Zingiber officinale Zingiberaceae Zinjibl Used as spice Stomachache
