Cite this article:
Ahirwar (2016). Documentation of Some Threatened Ethnomedicinal Plants Used By Tribes of District Anuppur, Madhya Pradesh, Central India. Journal of Ravishankar University (Part-B: Science), 29(1), pp.169.
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Documentation of
Some Threatened Ethnomedicinal Plants Used By Tribes of District Anuppur,
Madhya Pradesh, Central India
Ramesh Kumar Ahirwar
Department of Botany, Govt. Nehru
P.G. College Burhar, District Shahdol - 484 110, India
Corresponding author email:
dr.rkahirwar@ gmail.com
(Received
30 December 2015, accepted 28 January 2016)
Abstract: Present
paper highlights some threatened ethno medicinal plants uses of 33 plant
species belonging to 33 genera and 26 families used by the tribal communities
of District Anuppur, Madhya Pradesh, Central India. Present Ethnomedicinal
survey was conducted in the remote villages of District Anuppur during the
period 2013-2014. These plants are mostly used to different types of diseases
like fever, diarhoea, dysentery, piles, joint pain, wounds, healings, asthma, bronchitis,
cough. snake bite, memories, cardiac disease, kidney trouble, urinary diseases,
skin problem and jaundice etc. Part of the plant used, dosage, mode of drug
preparation and administration in different ailments and diseases are
described. The plants species have been arranged alphabetically with their
family, local name and ethno medicinal uses.
Keywords: Threatened,
Ethnomedicinal, Tribal communities, Anuppur, Central India