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| Title: | Some folk medicines used by the Sonowal Kacharis tribe of the Brahmaputra valley, Assam |
| Authors: | Kalita, Dilip
Deb, Bikash |
| Keywords: | Herbarium
Sonowal Kacharis
Folk medicine |
| Issue Date: | Aug-2004 |
| Publisher: | CSIR |
| IPC Code: | Int. cl. 7─ A61K35/78 |
| Abstract: | The Sonowal Kacharis tribe is confined to remote
areas of the Brahmaputra Valley, Asssm. Like other tribals of India and abroad
the Sonowal Kacharis also use some medicinal plants for controlling and curing
their diseases. An attempt has been made to study plant based folk medicines
used by this tribe for treatment of 19 different diseases, viz. asthma,
ascariasis, diabetes, diarrhoea, diuretic, dyspepsia, dysentery, dysmenorrhoea,
glossitis, mumps, oedema in pregnancy, oliguria, paralysis, paronychia, piles,
pinworm infection, scabies, scanty lactation, tonsillitis, which are prevalent
among them. First hand information on uses of 16 wild and 11 cultivated plant
species have been reported in this paper for further research and revalidation
of traditional uses of these plants. |
| Page(s): | 240-246 |
| ISSN: | 0975-1092 (Online); 0972-592X (Print) |
| Source: | NPR Vol.3(4) [July-August 2004]
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