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| Title: | Some ethnomedicines used by the Tai Ahom of Dibrugarh district, Assam, India |
| Authors: | Kalita, Dilip
Phukan, Bonoranjan |
| Keywords: | Assam
Dibrugarh
Ethnomedicine
Medicinal plants
Tai Ahom |
| Issue Date: | Dec-2010 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| IPC Code: | Int. cl.8 - A61K 36/00 |
| Abstract: | It is well known fact that from the time immemorial, large number of plant
species were used by the mankind for the treatment of different kind of
diseases. The ethno-medico-botanical folklore of Tai Ahom of Dibrugarh
district of Assam is very rich. An attempt has been made to study
ethnomedicines used by the Tai Ahom people of the study areas for the
treatment of 17 commonly occurring diseases like abdominal pain, abscess,
cough, cut-injury, diarrhoea, dysentery, epilepsy, epitaxis, fracture,
gastric, inflammation, loosening of teeth, loss of appetite, migraine,
sleeplessness, sour in mouth, whooping cough and worms. A total number of 24
medicinally important plant species are reported in this paper. |
| Page(s): | 507-511 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print) |
| Source: | IJNPR Vol.1(4) [December 2010]
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