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OF EAST NIMAR MP, INDIA Bhavna Rajput
Department of Botany, Dr. C.V. Raman University Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh
Abstract - Medicinal plants are a boon for disease. Nature has provided a rich botanical wealth with diverse plantation in different parts of India. Medicinal plants are useful for human ailments because of the presence of bioactive constituents or phytochemicals which are secondary metabolites such as alkaloids, saponin, glycosides, lactones, steroids etc.
Due to the rapid extension of side effects of allopathic medicines, Herbal medicines are becoming popular day by day as Herbal drugs are safe, cheaper and easily available with therapeutic properties.
In the interior East nimar areas, plants become the only source of medicine because lack of modernfacilities and remoteness. An ethno botanical exploration was made to find out the medicinal values of common weeds present in crop fields and different places like crop field of rice, vegetable and other localitiesof East nimar during 2012-13. During the survey, A total of 30 plant species belonging to 30genera and 18 families were identified as being used for treatment of approximately 36 ailments or the rapeuticindications including headache, toothache and eye inflammations. It has also been observed that more numbers of medicinal weeds were recorded in the family Asteraceae followed by Amaranthaceous and Poaceae. The family like Amaranthaceae, Asteraceae and Poaceae had the largest number of plants used for dysentery, wounds and skin diseases.
Keywords: Ethnomedicine weeds, korku tribe, bhils tribe, Gond tribe tribe, Nayak tribe Madhya Pradesh.
1 INTRODUCTION
Traditional medicine widely used the home of tribals and forest dwellers. More than 30% of the population consists of the tribal people with immense traditional knowledge study of traditional or folk medicines of tribals are called ethno-medicine. Traditional medicine and ethanol botnical information play an important role in scientific research among the medicinal plants used in ayurvedic medicines for their therapeutic action; some of these have been thoroughly investigated. India is the home to a great variety of economic decently important plant species and ranked seventh among 17 Mega diversity countries of the world. Only about 2,500 plant species of medicinal value have been well documented in Indian systems of medicine and ethnobotany tribals used locally available medicinal plants to meet their daily health care need.
2 RESULT AND DISCUSSION
The study revealed and that 30 plants species belonging to 18 families are used for treatment of various disease by nimadi people. These plants are easily available at low cost 2.1 Object
1. Preservation of un written traditional knowledge about herbal weeds.
2. Conservation of our national heritage before its extinction.
3. Proper documentation of indigenous knowledge about medicinal weeds.
4. To create awareness about its role in cultural social and health of people.
5. To increase in manufacture of herbal drugs.
List of medicinal weeds used by tribal’s of East Nimar(Khandwa )with their botanical name, family, parts use and cure dis-eases -
S.No. Botanical name Family Common
Name Traditonal uses
1 Achyranthes aspera L. Amaranthacee Latjeera It is used in the recovery of wounds caused by babool spines. Plants decoction is used in rheumatism.
2 Argemone Mexicana L. Papaveraceae Kateli Paste of roots and leaves with jiggery, ajwain and garlic is applied externally on chest of children suffering from double pneumonia.
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3 Ageraratum conizoidesLinn.
Asteraceae Osari It is used in Leucoderma.
4 Abrus precatorius
Linn. Fabaceae Safed gomchi Seeds help in the treatment of intestinal worms.
5 Asparagus racemosus Liliaceae Nimari
Harachara Dry powder of root acts as tonic.
6 Adhatod vasica Nees Acanthaceae Adusa Leaf juice heps to cure Tuberculosis.
7 Butea monosperma Fabaceae Palas Flawers are taken in urinary problem and colic pains.
8 Boerhaavia diffusa
Linn. Nyctaginaceae Vishkhapra Leaves help to cure jaundice and kidney.
9 Cassia tora Linn. Fabaceae Pawar Has been used for treating skin diseases such as leprosy, ringworm, itching, & psoriasis and also for treatment of snakebite and arthritis 10 Cuscuta reflexa Cuscutaceae Amarbel It helps in recovery from jaundice.
11
Cynodon dactylon Poaceae Durba Plant extract used to cure epilepsy.
12 Datura metel Linn. Solenaceae Dhatura Fresh leaves soaked in coconut oil are applied externally on burnt skin.
13 Echinops echninatus Asteraceae Omkata Root extract is helpful to cure cough and cold.
14 Eclipta alba Linn. Asteraceae Bhangra Seed oil is used for hair growth.
15 Euphorbia clarkeana Euphorbiaceae Chhoti dudhi It is used to cure mouth blisters.
16 Euphorbia hirta Linn. Euphorbiaceae Bari dudhi Extract of plant is helpful to cure urinogenital disease, dysentery, colic problem.
17 Evolvulus alsinoides L.
Convolvulaceae Shankhpushpi Leaf extract is given to enhance memory power and to treat cough and cold.
18 Ficus glomerata Moraceae Gular Applied for piles, swelling, Root helps to cure malignant tumor.
19 Gloriosa superba
Linn. Liliaceae Kalhari Tuber juice helps to cure gout
rheumatism and gonorrhea.
20 Lycopersicum
esculentum Solanaceae Tamater Fruit juice helps to cure malignant tumor.
21 Tribulus terrestris
Linn. Zygophyllaceae Gokharu Dried fruit powder is taken with honey in urinary, kidnry trouble and stone trouble.
22 Tinospora cordifolia Menispermacea
e Giloy/Gulbel Tt cures several disesses, mainly stem juice is given orally in plasmodium infection(malaria).
23 Tridax procumbens Asteraceae Ghamra Plant juice mixed with mishri in half cup of water is given to cure from urinary problem in male and also used for hair problems.
24 Urginia indica Liliaceae Jangli piyaz Bulb of this plant helps to cure malignant tumor.
25 Withania somnifera
Dunal Solanaceae Aswgandha It helps to cure tuberculosis 26 Jatropha gossypifolia
L. Euphorbiaceae Lal arenda Seed oil applied on eczema and itches.
27 Chlorophytum
tuberosum Liliaceae Sfed musli Root powder is taken is tonic.
28 Curculigo orchioides Hypoxidaceae Kali musli It helps in recoveru of wounds.
29 Cheilanthes argentea Adiantaceae Bal Plant produce cooling effects in the body.
30 Diospyros
melanoxylon Ebenaceae Temru Extract of root is given with black pepper orally to patient as an antidote in snakebite.
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