The Use of Medicinal Plants in the Treatment of Asthma: Surveys of Asthmatic Patients at Moulay Youssef Hospital

Houari MB, Zakariya I Ajal E, Cherghi A and Nejjari R

Department of Pharmacy, Mohammed V Military Training Hospital in Rabat, Morocco Department of Pharmacognosy of the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Rabat - Mohammed V University of Rabat, Morocco

^*Correspondance to: Bel Houari Meriem 

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Abstract:

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the bronchi, responsible of various phenomena at the respiratory level. There would be more than 235 million asthmatics in the world. Usually, an appropriate drug treatment allows good control of the disease, but many patients have recourse to complementary therapies such as phytotherapy (herbal medicine). This study focuses on the place of herbal medicine in the basic management of asthma. A survey was conducted among asthmatic patients at the Moulay Youssef hospital in Rabat.100 asthmatic patients were interviewed and 41% associate a non-drug herbal treatment with it. A total of 26 species of medicinal plants belonging to 15 different families haven’t been identified, the most represented families were Lamiaceae and Fabaceae. Among the most used plants: nigella, garlic, onion and fig, the most used parts were the seeds (54%). 74% of patients take their herbal medicine in the form of plant combinations and 67.5% report feeling an improvement in their condition as a result. Among the species listed, 17/26 present evidence in the literature of their anti-asthmatic action through clinical or animal trials. The rest of the listed species are used in a folkloric way, for the treatment of asthma, this represents new avenues of scientific research on their effectiveness, their mechanism of action and their toxicity in order to develop new therapeutic means in the treatment of asthma.

Keywords:

Asthma; Phytotherapy; Hospital Moulay Youssef rabat; Plante; Ethnobotanic study

Cite the Article:

Houari MB, Zakariya I, Ajal E, Cherghi A, Nejjari R. The Use of Medicinal Plants in the Treatment of Asthma: Surveys of Asthmatic Patients at Moulay Youssef Hospital. World J Surg Surgical Res. 2024; 7: 1583..