TAF PUBLISHING

Medicinal plants are a large group of plants used to prevent and or treat human and animal diseases. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 80 percent of some Asian and African countries presently use herbal medicine for some aspect of primary health care. Since migrating nomads have more connection with nature and on many days of the year they are far from the cities, therefore they take medicinal plants more than other people. By several trips to study areas, 134 plant species distributed in 97 genera and 37 families were collected and identified. Based on the exhaustive interviews with indigenous people and medicinal plants, these plants' medicinal plants were listed. Investigations have resulted that 67 species of these plants have medicinal uses. These medicinal species belong to 31 families. Asteraceae with 11 species, Chenopodiaceae with seven species, and Lamiaceae with six species are the most important medicinal plant families. The major life forms of the medicinal plants in this area were annual herbs followed by perennial trees and shrubs with a proportion of 34.32% and 26.86%, respectively. 17.91% of the species are perennial herbs, 14.92% are perennial bushes, and 5.97% are annual bushes. Our results showed leaf and flower have the most traditional uses on the Farashband tribe, with a proportion of 62.69% and 34.33%.