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| Title: | Ethnomedicinal aspects of angiospermic epiphytes and parasites of Kerala, India |
| Authors: | Shanavaskhan, AE
Sivadasan, M
Alfarhan, Ahmed H
Thomas, Jacob |
| Keywords: | Epiphytes
Parasites
Ethnomedicine
Traditional knowledge
Indigenous knowledge
Kerala, India |
| Issue Date: | Apr-2012 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| IPC Code: | Int. Cl.8: A61K 36/00, A01H 5/00, A01N 3/00, A01H 17/00 |
| Abstract: | Studies on ethnomedicinal aspects of epiphytes and parasites of Kerala have
been conducted and it revealed that as the tribes of Kerala have a lot of
terrestrial medicinal plants available around their premises, they seldom
resorted to the epiphytic and parasitic medicinal plants occurring on tall
trees for their use as drugs for the treatment of ailments. Hence, their
knowledge on epiphytes and parasites was found to be very limited, especially
among the young generation of the tribes. The present study reported the use of
28 species (16 epiphytes and 12 parasites), which represent about 13.4% of the
total epiphytes and parasites present in Kerala, and they are of valuable
properties and uses and are used for curing or corrective measures for several
diseases. Majority of the properties and uses recorded are first reports
pertaining to these special groups of plants. A thorough investigation on the
phytochemistry and therapeutic values of the bioactive compounds contained in
these epiphytes and parasites would result in the discovery of new and valuable
drugs of high potentials and of interest to the Nutraceutical and
Pharmaceutical industries. |
| Page(s): | 250-258 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0975-1068 (Online); 0972-5938 (Print) |
| Source: | IJTK Vol.11(2) [April 2012]
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