Multi Elemental Analysis of Medicinal Plant Flower Hygenya Abyssinia "Locally Called Chima” Used in Rural Part of Ethiopia (Gurage Zone, Shamene) as a Medicine to Cure from Tapeworm

Abstract

In the under-developed countries, the people of far-flung rural areas still depend upon herbal medicines and minerals. The foundation of usage of herbal and mineral medicine is the experience of thousands of years. The present paper deals with the characterization of the flower of a flowering plant Hygenya Abyssinia \ locally called Chima" for essential and toxic elements. The sample of the flower were collected from three different small forests, \Kotergedra, Yame and Genemar", found in the study area. The plant is rarely grown by people in the surrounding. The three forests are the main source of the plant's flower almost all the people using it. One sample is prepared for irradiation from the flower collected from each forest, so that the numbers of samples were three. The standardization of neutron activation analysis called instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) was employed for the qualitative and quantitative description of elements. The analysis methodologies were validated by analyzing the IAEA 1515 (apple leaves). More than twenty elements including K, Mg, Al, Cl, Fe, Ca, Mn, Na, V, Br, La, Sm, Sc, Cr, Co, Zn, Rb, Ba, Nd, Eu, Tb, Yb, and Th, were determined in all samples. The elements considered were those elements their concentration in the analysis of the IAEA standard agrees with the values given in the certificate of the standard in addition to their percentage standard deviation (SD) is 10 and below 10.