Medicinal Plants of East of Golestan (Turkmens) on Gastrointestinal illness

Medicinal plants are a group of plants that, their organs have compounds with medicinal properties, and because of the therapeutic effects for humans or animals, used in the pharmaceutical industry. These plants are among the natural resources of each country. Medication and treatment is an important element of ethnobotany that encompasses native therapeutic traditions, beliefs, and practices. Ethnobotany identifies medicinal plants by referring to the natural realms and by applying the medicinal experiences of different cultures and ethnicities. In this regard, Golestan province, due to its different ethnic and cultural composition, it has a good background for reviewing medicinal plants information. In this research, by visiting experiences of Turkmen people who lives in east of Golestan were about ۳۰ villages in the Turkmen province east of the province and interviewing local skilled people, including women and men, medicinal plants of the region, method of use, time of use and their application are recorded, ۲۵ out of ۶۱ species were list for treatment of gastrointestinal illness, including: ulcer peptic, flatulence, stomach ache, constipation. Example of them including; Urtica dioica L.(Urticaceae) ،Mentha longifolia (Hud) (Labiatal) ،Peganum harmala L.(Zygophyllaceae) ،Tragopogon persicus Biss (Asteraceae), Glycyrrhiza glabra L. (Fabaceae) ،Teucrium polium L. (Lamiaceae). The method of processing all medicinal plants was also recorded in this study, most of them are boiled plants.