The advantages of Blepharis linariifolia Pers plant;

Blepharis linariifolia Pers distribution, Blepharis linariifolia Pers as edible herb plant, Blepharis linariifolia Pers and its medicinal uses, Blepharis has multiple useful for both animals and human, principal driving forces behind the dynamics of Sahelian;

The uses of Blepharis linariifolia Pers plant;

Information about Blepharis linariifolia Pers plant;

Blepharis linariifolia Pers plant “Guirngal in Pular” is an herbaceous species of plant in the family Acanthaceae, with a self-supporting growth habit; it has simple, broad leaves.

The plant characterizes as low-growing wiry herb with prickly bracts, it is gathered from the wild for local use as food, medicine and craftwork, as well as grazed by all stocks, and is particularly relished by cattle.

Blepharis linariifolia Pers is an annual herb widely distributed in many African countries, especially in the mainly drier areas from Mauritania to Sudan, and is also widely found across Arabia and India.

Traditional uses of Blepharis linariifolia Pers plant:

Blepharis linariifolia Pers is an edible herb plant consumed by human and ruminants; numerous ethno medicinal uses have been reported for Blepharis plant among African, such as for healing skin burns and wounds, alleviating chest pain, and in treatment of urogenital infections.

In addition, the tisane of Blepharis linariifolia Pers is occasionally prescribed as a remedy for syphilis; the plant infusion is used as a general tonic, and for the treatment of stomach pain and bilharzias; moreover, the water extract of the fruit is used for urinary disorders and kidney stones.

All parts of the plant are useful, the seeds are for food, whole plant is as medicine for venereal diseases, the plant can be grown as horticultural plant to provide good fodder for animals in dry season.

 Threatening of Blepharis linariifolia Pers plant:

Blepharis linariifolia Pers plant was plentiful in Mauritania but it is entirely disappeared from the country because of severe droughts and overgrazing.

Blepharis has multiple useful uses for both animals and human, therefore people were always looking areas where this plant is abundant to graze their cattle and other domesticated animals; fortunately, Blepharis plant can be grown in fenced and irrigated areas, so it yields grains as seeds, these seeds cane be sown again to produce stalk forage that contain grains.  

The forage will be used as haystacks for animals; some seeds will be sown or distributed to large fenced areas in order to grow during the rainy season; furthermore grains will be thrown in conserved areas during the beginning of rainy season, so that the grains will grow and mature through two to three months.

Many villages in the countryside of Mauritania have large fences near their habitats to conserve herbs for livestock, therefore when they have been taught on how to sow the grains of Blepharis species to their fences, they will accept particularly, the produced haystacks from the plant are in high nutritional value, besides to that Blepharis plant is a milky plant that increases milk of lactating animals.

Blepharis linariifolia species grows in thick clusters and so the plant makes good habitats for other small creatures and fixes nitrogen to the earth.

Pasture dynamic and the availability of forage in the Sahel:

Forage is an almost uncontrolled factor in the cattle raising systems of the Sahel zones; its availability varies widely throughout a year to year.

The principal driving forces behind the dynamics of the Sahelian rangelands are the weather, grazing and bushfires; these factors together, with the substrate, determine the distribution of plant species in relation to their properties.

The most important plant properties seem to be the rate and the heterogeneity of germination, the photosynthetic pathway and the length of the period of growth before flowering; it is suggested how the knowledge about pasture dynamic can be used in rangeland evaluation in the Sahel; see how human destructing the globe.

Blepharis linariifolia Pers / Guirngal

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