High Diversity of Medicinal Uses of Thai Legumes (Fabaceae) and Their Potential in Public Herbal Medicine

Ethnomedicinal studies have demonstrated that Fabaceae include the highest number of medicinal species all plant families in Thailand. To evaluate which legumes hold greatest potential for development public herbal medicines, we used ethnobotanical indices to screen traditional from 152 literature sources published 1986–2019. The homogeneity each use category was evaluated using informant consensus factor (ICF). popularity by percentage fidelity level (FL) and value (UV). A total 261 98 genera were recorded their uses. uses included 5387 reports covered treatments 420 disorders. pointed 15 with high values (e.g., Biancaea sappan (L.) Tod., Cassia fistula L., Senna siamea (Lam.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby). Nine these are already medicine. other six should be studied greater depth, especially identify bioactive compounds so they can developed