Medicinal Plants Used in Traditional Herbal Medicine in the Fifa Village/Southern Jordan

Abstract

This study were conducted to identify the uses of plant species in traditional medicine in the Fifa village and to collect this information and save it from loss some of this information is not scientifically documented but is personally tested by some local communities. The questionnaire was taken with key-informants like traditional healers between the aged of 25 to 60 years. From field surveys conducted among the population, 17 plants species commonly used as traditional home remedies in Jordan valley were recorded.