Survey of Ethnobotanical Medicinal Plants Used by the People of District Guna, Madhya Pradesh, India

Abstract

The documentation of the biodiversity and it is traditional as well as medicinal uses by the ethnic communities have assumed priority due to the misuse and rampant loss of biodiversity, the emerging threats of biopiracy and the increasing patent wars on bioresources. Since, the medicinal plants are very important for the production of various drugs because thousands of years ago, these plants are used by our forefathers for the treatment of various diseases. Therefore, now a day, these medicinal plants are used for the production of various drugs as well as to cure various diseases. Through there are a good number of publications on ethnobotany on particular and different tribes but the present study was carried out to explore the vascular plant diversity and investigate the ethnomedicinal potential and their conservation status in the villages of Guna district, Madhya Pradesh, India. In this research survey, only medicinal plant, their local names and their medicinal uses were interviewed and presented. The information was obtained from local informant i.e. Vaidya’s, Hakeems and Ayurvedic Practitioners etc. having knowledge about medicinal plants. The paper deals about some medicinal plants used by the Bheel primitive tribe of Guna district, Madhya Pradesh, India. The paper enumerates 25 medicinal plant species belonging to eighteen families used by Bheel tribes for curing various ailments among human beings and animals.

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Manju Jain, Prem Narayan Shrivastava, Rakesh Samar

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  • EP ID EP671011
  • DOI 10.21276/ijlssr.2018.4.4.5
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Manju Jain, Prem Narayan Shrivastava, Rakesh Samar (2018). Survey of Ethnobotanical Medicinal Plants Used by the People of District Guna, Madhya Pradesh, India. SSR Institute of International Journal of Life Sciences (SSR-IIJLS), 4(4), 1880-1888. https://europub.co.uk./articles/-A-671011