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| Title: | Medicinal plants used by the Kandhas of Kandhamal district of Orissa |
| Authors: | Behera, Soumit K
Panda, Anima
Behera, Susanta K
Misra, Malaya K |
| Keywords: | Ethnomedicine
Kandhamal district
Kandha tribe
Medicinal plants
Traditional medicine |
| Issue Date: | Oct-2006 |
| Publisher: | CSIR |
| IPC Code: | Int. Cl.8: A61K36/00, A61P1/04, A61P1/06, A61P1/08, A61P1/10, A61P1/12, A61P1/14, A61P1/16, 61P3/08, A61P3/10, A61P5/00,A61P5/30, A61P9/14, A61P11/00, A61P11/14, A61P13/00, A61P13/02, A61P15/00, A61P15/14, A61P19/00, A61P19/02, A61P19/08, A61P21/00, A61P25/00, A61P25/08, A61P25/10, A61P27/00, A61P27/02, A61P27/04, A61P27/14, A61P29/00, A61P31/00, A61P35/00, A61P39/02 |
| Abstract: | The paper deals
with the ethnomedicinal information on the Kandha
tribe of Kandhamal district of Orissa situated on the Eastern Ghats of India. Use
of allopathic drugs by the Kandhas inhabiting
in the remote part of the district is almost unknown. Several field trips were
made to the area and information on the uses of plants was collected along with
plant specimens. First hand information
on use of 98 plant species under 93 genus and 59 families against 127 ailments
was collected from the Kandha community
of the district. There is a need for further critical phytochemical analysis
and bioactive effects of the information collected on plants used by the
tribes. The uses that are recorded in the paper are almost new to the
literature. Botanical name, local name(s), families and their medicinal uses
have been enumerated. |
| Page(s): | 519-528 |
| ISSN: | 0975-1068 (Online); 0972-5938 (Print) |
| Source: | IJTK Vol.05(4) [October 2006]
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