Abstract
Arunachal Pradesh, the largest state of North East India has been considered as one of the biodiversity ‘Hotspot’ areas in the world. The original inhabitants of Arunachal Pradesh are tribal people, belonging to 26 major tribes and 110 sub-tribes. The ethnic communities of the state have their own rich traditional knowledge in the use of various tree species for treatment of different diseases with a practically applied aspect of knowledge acquired through close natural observation. They are store houses of indigenous knowledge which is unexplored and unrecorded. The present paper deals with the effectiveness of folk medicine for curative, remedial and medicinal uses of 64 tree species under 48 genera and 30 families providing detail account on the plants, their vernacular name, scientific name, plants parts and their uses. Key words: Trees, medicine, ethnic community, Arunachal, India.
Highlights
Ethnobotany is the study of plant wealth used in our day to day life for medicine, food, vegetable, fuel, fodder, furniture, ornamental purpose, worship, cultural material, preferably by the aboriginal and tribal people
It has been recognized as multidisciplinary study comprising many interesting and needful aspects of plant science, history, anthropology, culture and literature, giving us the idea of relationship between man and plants, socio-cultural relationship with their surrounding natural environment, their faith, taboos, worship and several other magico religious aspects
It is imperative to study the traditional herbal medicine being practiced in the region and document the same for proper sustained utilization
Summary
Ethnobotany is the study of plant wealth used in our day to day life for medicine, food, vegetable, fuel, fodder, furniture, ornamental purpose, worship, cultural material, preferably by the aboriginal and tribal people. Due to the diversified culture and traditions in one way, along with the rich species diversity on the other, the region shows high scope and potential of ethnobotanical studies ethnomedicobotanica investigation. Apart from the timber yielding species, other species which are used as medicine: Michelia champaca, Garcinia pedunculata, Oroxylum indicum, Emblica officinalis, Ficus religiosa etc., are commonly distributed in the region and the forests are a centre for curiosity for the botanist and taxonomist and well represented with primitive, endemic and threatened tree species.
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