AN ETHNOBOTANICAL STUDY OF TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND USES OF MEDICINAL PLANTS
N Bindushree
Plant Science (Botany)
ABSTRACT
Ethnobiology is the medical observe of the plant life and animals as handled or used by exceptional traditional communities. Early man searched for the satisfactory nutritious meals to have a healthy and ailment free long lifestyles from the surrounding environment. This attempt has resulted in choosing a massive range of meals gadgets by way of human communities who lived in specific elements of the world. The early humans perhaps combined intuition with indulgence to pick his food gadgets. Data have been accumulated via interviews with seven traditional questionnaires for nearby community members. Traditional names of the plant life by using conventional healers and nearby community participants had been prepared as a checklist. Loss of conventional medicinal names of plant life changed into ascertained with up to 60% overlapping in their nomenclature. Most of the courses have been worried with ethnobotany or agricultural operations inclusive of shifting cultivation and fairs of the vicinity. Ethnobotanical reviews have been in particular on ethnomedicinal plants with some courses on meals and liquids. The ethnomedicinal publications in maximum instances cited best the names of flowers, used without going into the details of the approach of use, the quantum of use and other related factors.
Keywords: ethnobotanical, traditional, knowledge, uses of medicinal plants
