ETHNOMEDICINAL SURVEY OF MEDICINAL PLANTS FOUND IN KUNJAPURI HILL NOT MENTIONED IN NIGHANUS
Journal Title: European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences - Year 2019, Vol 6, Issue 10
Abstract
An Ethno medicinal study under the title “ETHNOMEDICINAL SURVEY OF MEDICINAL PLANTS FOUND IN KUNJAPURI HILL NOT MENTIONED IN NIGHANUS” is immense importance with medical science. Now ethno medicine is considered as the branch of ethno-biology in which the relationship between the use of medicinal plants and human culture is studied. Ethno-medicine focus on how plants has been used, mange and perceived in human societies and it also include the plants having medicinal value. In India, 65% of the populations in rural areas are using medicinal plants to help meet their primary health care needs. Traditional medicine and ethno botanical information play an important role in scientific research, particularly when the literature and field work data have been properly evaluated. India is one of the twelve mega-biodiversity countries of the world having rich vegetation with a wide variety of plants with medicinal value. Rural people not only depend on wild plants as sources of food, medicine, fodder and fuel, but have also developed methods of resource management, which may be fundamental to the conservation of some of the world's important habitats. The traditional medicinal uses of plant species belonging to different families for various diseases and ailments like wounds, cuts, stomach pain, diabetes, diarrhea, dysentery, fever, cold, etc with botanical description by the local dwellers of Kunjapuri Hill of Narendra Nagar district Tehri Garhwal of Uttrakhand.
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Chityanand Tiwari
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