Abstract

An ethnopharmacological survey was carried out between December 2012 and May 2013 in eleven different locations dependent on the Guercif Province (NE of Morocco). The names of plants, their mode of preparation and administration, and their parts used have been inventoried for various local uses in traditional medicine. Our survey allowed us to identify one hundred plant species used in that Province, belonging to 49 botanical families. Rosmarinus officinalis, Origanum compactum, Artemisia herba-alba, Thymus spp., Mentha pulegium, Nigella sativa, Lavandula spp., Visnaga daucoides, Aristolochia longa and Cenchrus spicatus are the most used taxa by the local population. This study showed that the plant leaves are the most commonly used parts, and the remedies prepared are mostly based on decoction. The endocrine system, especially the diabetes, and the digestive one are the most frequent among the body systems treated by the local traditional medicine.