A Preliminary Study on the Efficacy of Medicinal Plants from Lawacherra Rain Forest Used for All Forms of Brain Disorders

Abstract

Bangladesh is a land of forests. The health, wealth, and happiness of Bangladesh depend on her forests. Lawacherra Rain Forest is one of the important and well-reserved forests in Bangladesh. The Forest is home to a fantastic variety of plants, birds & animals and is considered to be of great ecological importance. Botanists will be happy to note that the incredibly rare Chloroform tree can be found here - the only one in Asia. There is also plenty of other vegetation in the area as the hilly terrain is just covered with a variety of plants. Two important ethnic groups can be found living within the boundaries of the forest - the Manipuri and Khasia. Their location on top of the hilltops is absolutely breathtaking and has often been called a ‘piece of paradise’. The present study were conducted an ethnomedicinal survey amongst the Manipuri and Khasia ethnic healers of the area and noted that their formulations contain a number of medicinal plants not usually used by traditional healers in other regions of Bangladesh. Information was collected after obtaining informed consent with the help of a semi-structured questionnaire and guided field-walk method, where the informant pointed out the various medicinal plants and described their uses to treat all forms of brain disorders. All medicinal plants were photographed, collected, identified, and vouchers were stored at the Bangladesh National Herbarium; under the author's collector series. Information on forty-nine medicinal plant species are grown and consumed as summer, rainy, winter, and spring seasons because there are six seasons in Bangladesh, distributed in forty-nine genera and thirty-six families. It was further noted that leafs formed the major plant part used followed by roots and whole plant. It was clearly observed that medicinal plants from Lawacherra Rain Forest did have a positive healing effect upon many brain disorders cases. It was also shown to produce some encouraging effects in terms of several important factors like: delaying the brain disorders progression, pain reduction, enhancing the immune response & life expectancy, and over all well-being of the patients.