Ethnomedicinal Plants Used in the Healthcare Systems of Tribes of Dantewada, Chhattisgarh India

Pankaj K. Sahu, Vanee Masih, Sharmistha Gupta, Devki L. Sen, Anushree Tiwari

Department of Botany, Dr. C. V. Raman University Kota, Bilaspur, India.
Department of Botany, Government Science College, Raipur, India.
West Bengal State Council of Science & Technology, Kolkata, India.

DOI: 10.4236/ajps.2014.511177                

Abstract

The tribal people depend on forests for their livelihood and most of the rural people still depend on traditional medicine as a primary healthcare source. The paper highlights the rich plant resources and the vast wealth of ethnobotanical information available with the various tribes of the region. In this paper, some new and less known ethno medicinal uses of 104 plants of tribes of Dantewada, Dakshin Bastar C.G. in different ailments have been reported. The main objective of present work is to give the information and documentation of medicinal plant used by tribal of the study sites. The ethnomedicinal information was gathered from interviews with living elders belonging to Madiya, Muriya, Gond and Bhatra tribes of the study area. The present work on ethnomedicinal plants, used in the healthcare systems of tribes in 15 villages, was carried out from Geedam block of Dantewada, Dakshin Bastar C.G.

Keywords

Phytotheraphy, Tribe, Ethno Botany, Documentation, Dantewada

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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