Traditional knowledge and viral hepatitis

The present ethnopharmacological study was carried out in the city of Fez to establish a catalog of medicinal plants used in the traditional treatment of viral hepatitis, and to gather the therapeutic knowledge preserved by the local population. Based on a series of ethnopharmacological surveys of 100 herbalists, 46 medicinal species belonging to 27 botanical families were identified. Of these, four families were found to be the most dominant: Asteraceae, Fabaceae, Lamiaceae and Araliaceae. As for the parts used, whole plants and roots predominate, while the most common form of preparation is infusion.