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ResearchJournal article16 February 2026

An ethnobotanical assessment of medicinal, cultural and ritual uses of local flora of tehsil Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan

Khalid Hussain, Haleema Ansar, Manal A. Alshaqhaa, Khalid Nawaz, Noshia Arshad, Saba Ijaz, Yogesh Ahlawat

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Records the medicinal, ritual and cultural uses of 99 plant species in Tehsil Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan, from interviews and questionnaires with 160 inhabitants. The authors report that bhang, Cannabis sativa, is used for neurological disorders, stretched muscles, allergy and skin problems and is taken for its antispasmodic action, with a use value of 1.00. The paper's wider findings concern ritual plants, among them Albizia lebbeck leaves hung at doorways to protect newborns from the evil eye and Ziziphus jujuba leaves used in Islamic funeral washing. The cannabis details here follow the paper's running text, as the scientific-name column of its published species table is misaligned.

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DOI10.1186/s13002-026-00866-9

CountryPakistan

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2026-02-16 2026-10-15 An ethnobotanical assessment of medicinal, cultural and ritual uses of local flora of tehsil Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan Journal article Culture Khalid Hussain, Haleema Ansar, Manal A. Alshaqhaa, Khalid Nawaz, Noshia Arshad, Saba Ijaz, Yogesh Ahlawat Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2026 10.1186/s13002-026-00866-9 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13002-026-00866-9 https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s13002-026-00866-9.pdf Records the medicinal, ritual and cultural uses of 99 plant species in Tehsil Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan, from interviews and questionnaires with 160 inhabitants. The authors report that bhang, Cannabis sativa, is used for neurological disorders, stretched muscles, allergy and skin problems and is taken for its antispasmodic action, with a use value of 1.00. The paper's wider findings concern ritual plants, among them Albizia lebbeck leaves hung at doorways to protect newborns from the evil eye and Ziziphus jujuba leaves used in Islamic funeral washing. The cannabis details here follow the paper's running text, as the scientific-name column of its published species table is misaligned. Pakistan