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| Title: | Potential of ethnobotanical studies in North East India: An overview |
| Authors: | Dutta, B K
Dutta, P K |
| Keywords: | Ethnobotany
North East India
Medicinal Plants
Biodiversity
Conservation
Tribes |
| Issue Date: | Jan-2005 |
| Publisher: | CSIR |
| IPC Code: | Int. Cl.7: A61K35/78, A01K1/00 |
| Abstract: | North East India has
a valuable heritage of herbal remedies. Its rural people and tribals living in
remote/forest areas still depend to a great extent on the indigenous systems of
medicine/cultivation. So far studies in this regard have been reported from a
very limited number of the tribes of North East region, viz. Ler, Mikir,
Karbis, Miris, Khasi and Jaintai, Garo, Monpas, Nishi, Apatani, Reangs, etc. A
wide range of plants with ethnobotanical value against some very important
diseases have been reported but much larger numbers of folk medicines have
remained endemic to certain tribal pockets in North East India. Therefore,
further detailed studies on the ethnobotanical aspects in the region may
provide meaningful ways for the promotion of traditional herbal medicinal
plants/land races of crop plants for the benefit of mankind at large. In the
present paper, the work that has been reported and the potentials of the
ethnobotanical studies with particular reference to biodiversity conservation
of the important medicinal/crop plants in the North Eastern region have been
highlighted and discussed. |
| Page(s): | 7-14 |
| ISSN: | 0975-1068 (Online); 0972-5938 (Print) |
| Source: | IJTK Vol.04(1) [January 2005]
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