A study on traditional medicinal plants of Uthapuram, Madurai District, Tamilnadu, South India

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• 作者：Balayogan Sivasankari ; Subburaj Pitchaimani ; Marimuthu An ; haraj
• 关键词：Traditional medicine ; Medicinal plants ; Uthapuram ; Madurai District
• 刊名：Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：December, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：3
• 期：12
• 页码：975-979
• 全文大小：580 K

文摘

Objective

To record the medicinal plants of Uthapuram Village, Madurai district, Tamilnadu, South India for the first time and the usage of these medicinal plants to remediate the diseases among the peoples.

Methods

Explorative field trips were made to the village for about twelve months from April 2012 to May 2013 to survey the medicinal plants and collect the information from the villagers.

Results

From this study 52 species of valuable medicinal plants belonging to 36 families were recorded and their ethnomedicinal values were collected from the village peoples.

Conclusion

This study focuses the importance, utilization and conservation of the medicinal plants among the people.