Author(s)

Eshonkulov Alijon Haydarovich^1*, Esanov Husniddin Kurbanovich²

¹Bukhara State University, Bukhara, Uzbekistan.
²Department of Biology, Bukhara State University, Bukhara, Uzbekistan.

The article presents data on the ethnobotanical characteristics of 12 species of medicinal and food plants in the Bukhara region, where the climatic conditions are specific, hot and dry. These plants were used by the local population in ancient times and now as food and natural remedies. As a result of the study, data on the use of medicinal plants in food were collected on the basis of surveys of rural residents, housewives and elderly people of the city of Bukhara and the region. It is worth noting that due to the demand of the modern era, the study of the nutritional and therapeutic aspects of medicinal plants that grow naturally, their scientific and practical significance, determines the possibility of their use in folk medicine.

Bukhara, Ethnobotany, Family, Species, Category, Flora, Folk Medicine, Local Population, Research

Haydarovich, E. and Kurbanovich, E. (2022) Ethnobotanics of Certain Medicinal Plants of Bukhara Region (Uzbekistan). American Journal of Plant Sciences, 13, 394-402. doi: 10.4236/ajps.2022.133024.