Abstract
Many studies in the past have revealed the use of the indigenous medicinal plant for the treatment of various diseases in Saudi Arabia. However, the details of these indigenous essential medicinal herbs and their therapeutic implication against various human and animals diseases are not well documented and organised in a local platform. In this regard, a thorough mining of scholarly article for information on local herbal remedies available and used by communities of Saudi Arabia was performed. The research revealed a unique insight into the natural herbal resource of Saudi Arabia with as many as 120 varieties of the medicinal plant from Saudi Arabia. Therefore, in order to provide a structured platform to store and retrieve relevant information pertaining to an indigenous medicinal plant of Saudi Arabia, a Saudi Herbal Plants Information System was built using waterfall model. MySQL an open source Relational Database Management System and server-side scripting language Hypertext Pre-processor was used to build an interactive dynamic web portal of the Saudi Herbal Plants Information System. The designed web portal allows visitors to access information on herbs available in the herbal database for research and development.
Highlights
The use of medicinal plants as a source of therapy against various ailments have been practiced in Saudi Arabia since ages [1]
2) Database architecture We developed a database information system, named Saudi Herbal Plants Information System (SHPIS), to store manually curated data of all medicinal plants found in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
The Saudi Herbal Plants Information System (SHPIS) provides a description of various herbal plants found in Saudi Arabia used traditionally for the treatment of various diseases
Summary
The use of medicinal plants as a source of therapy against various ailments have been practiced in Saudi Arabia since ages [1]. Studies in the past have reported the presence of valuable medicinal plants from the different regions of Saudi. Our objective in this study was to build a manually curated information system constituting of the information of medicinal plants found in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Scientists/researchers of countries like Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, and Pakistan have built herbal database comprising of herbal plants found in their respective countries, namely, Medicinal Plants of Bangladesh (http://www.mpbd.info), Chinese Herbal Medicine. The basic requirement of building an herbal database by countries like Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, and Pakistan is to organise and enlist their herbal heritage for the development of an alternative medicine source
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