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A Useful Medicinal Plants Database of Bangladesh

Md. Salah Uddin*
Department of Biology, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea.

Sang Woo Lee
International Biological Material Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

Bangladesh is rich with medicinal plants that have been used for centuries in traditional medicine to treat human disease. A comprehensive online database of the medicinal plants in Bangladesh will enable computational approaches towards natural product-based drug discovery. MPB 3.1, a manually curated database of 1208 species of medicinal plants in Bangladesh. This database provides the information respectively scientific name, family, growth habit, used plant parts, and medicinal uses of plants in Bangladesh.

Keywords: Medicinal plants, Database, Therapeutic uses, Bangladesh.

Location: Bangladesh

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End Date:

Program Area: Development of Host and Medicinal Plants

Commodity: Medicinal Plants

Objectives:

India already developed so many medicinal plant databases, China also have established online database for traditional Chinese medicine which includes the therapeutic uses for more than 6000 Chinese medicinal plants. Therefore we have built a manually curated database MPB 3.1, containing 1208 medicinal plant species of Bangladesh.

Methodology:

Literature Investigation: To retrieve data, over 500 kinds of literature (published in international and local journals until 2019) were checked claiming information regarding any medicinal values of Bangladeshi plants around the country. The goal of the MPB 3.1 database is to compile ethnopharmacological information on the medicinal plants of Bangladesh. Towards this goal, we manually compiled the medicinal (therapeutic) uses of medicinal plants in Bangladesh from books and published articles in the different journals.

Source of Information: J. of Advancement in Medical and Life Sciences Volume 8 / Issue 1 ISSN: 2348-294X

Article Link (Online Journal): https://www.natureinfo.com.bd/mpb

Funding Source:

Budget:

Total Budget (Tk.) :

Achievement/Findings:

In Bangladesh, two medicinal plant database information found, one is MPDB 1.0 and another one is MPBD. MPDB 1.0: a medicinal plant database of Bangladesh contains 406 medicinal plants information, but right now not available online [39]. Another website named MPBD is providing information about the beneficial effects of Bangladeshi 900 plants, but some plants are not found in our checklist and Flora of Bangladesh [40-50] as well as some plant information provided in duplicate number. MPB 3.1 includes 1208 medicinal plants using information which is the largest number till now compared with the MPDB 1.0 and MPBD. MPB 3.1 database is completely customized based on the search engine whereby putting any keyword users can find all the related information. In conclusion, the MPB 3.1 database will serve as a valuable resource in herbal drug discovery. This database finds utility to the scientific community for a quick review regarding plants for medicinal plant research and provides enormous scope for the development of herbal drugs using ethnopharmacological information.

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