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| Title: | Traditional remedies in Tarai region of Kumaun, Uttarakhand |
| Authors: | Mathur, Anjali
Joshi, Hema |
| Keywords: | Folk medicine
Traditional remedies
Tarai region
Kumaun division
Uttarakhand |
| Issue Date: | Oct-2012 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| IPC Code: | Int. Cl.8: A61K 36/00 |
| Abstract: | A
floristic survey of ethnomedicinal plants was conducted in the Tarai region of
Kumaun, Uttarakhand. The study was conducted during 2008 to 2011 to assess the
traditional uses of plant resources of this area. The study area was divided in
three sites and eight communities and the study was conducted through extensive
and intensive explorations during different seasons (i.e., summer, rainy,
winter and spring) of the year. A total of 41 Angiospermic plants species belonging
to
27 families being used for traditional remedies are reported. Details of plant
parts, methods of preparation and mode of utilization are also presented. The
information on traditional knowledge was gathered through exhaustive interviews
with local people as well as migrants of distant places of different gender and
class settled in the area. Although people of Tarai region used these plant species for 45 traditional remedies
for a long time on trial and error basis, further research and scientific
examination is recommended for these traditional remedies. |
| Page(s): | 652-657 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0975-1068 (Online); 0972-5938 (Print) |
| Source: | IJTK Vol.11(4) [October 2012]
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