Ethnopharmacological insights and statistical analysis of medicinal plants used for urolithiasis treatment in Rabat province, Morocco

Year 2025, Volume: 12 Issue: 3, 512 - 523, 04.09.2025

Hassan Afakhar Abdelhakim Bouyahya , Gökhan Zengin , Faïza Meiouet Mohamed Tabyaoui Hicham Harhar

https://doi.org/10.21448/ijsm.1618296

Abstract

Urinary tract disorders can potentially be treated using medicinal plants, which have long been valued for their healing abilities. This study documents and analyzes the use of indigenous plants using ethnobotanical methods, focusing on the treatment of urinary lithiasis in the Rabat Province of Morocco. Interviews with traditional healers and herbal users identified 37 plant species from 24 families, most of which belong to the Apiaceae family. A strong relationship between citation frequency and relative citation frequency is identified using regression analysis, and the importance of PC1 in capturing variation in the data is highlighted using principal component analysis. Overall, this study highlights the long history of medicinal plant use and provides information for future research into therapeutic use.

Keywords

Medicinal plants , Urinary stones , Rabat Province , Ethnobotanical methods

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