TITLE:
Ethnomedicinal Plants Used in the Healthcare Systems of Tribes of Dantewada, Chhattisgarh India
AUTHORS:
Pankaj K. Sahu, Vanee Masih, Sharmistha Gupta, Devki L. Sen, Anushree Tiwari
KEYWORDS:
Phytotheraphy, Tribe, Ethno Botany, Documentation, Dantewada
JOURNAL NAME:
American Journal of Plant Sciences,
Vol.5 No.11,
May
19,
2014
ABSTRACT: The tribal people
depend on forests for their livelihood and most of the rural people still
depend on traditional medicine as a primary healthcare source. The paper
highlights the rich plant resources and the vast wealth of ethnobotanical
information available with the various tribes of the region. In this paper,
some new and less known ethno medicinal uses of 104 plants of tribes of
Dantewada, Dakshin Bastar C.G. in different ailments have been reported. The
main objective of present work is to give the information and documentation of
medicinal plant used by tribal of the study sites. The ethnomedicinal
information was gathered from interviews with living elders belonging to Madiya,
Muriya, Gond and Bhatra tribes of the study area. The present work on ethnomedicinal
plants, used in the healthcare systems of tribes in 15 villages, was carried
out from Geedam block of Dantewada, Dakshin Bastar C.G.