Abstract
Herbal medicine is currently experiencing a revival in the world, along with other complementary therapies such as traditional Chinese Medicines, Osteopathy and Homeopathy. Many of the pharmaceuticals currently available to physicians have a long history of use as herbal remedies, including opium, aspirin, digitalis, and quinine. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 80% of the world's population presently uses herbal medicine for some aspect of primary health care. Herbal medicine is a major component in all traditional medicine systems, and a common element in Ayurvedic, homeopathic, naturopathic, traditional Chinese medicine, and Native American medicine. The district of Lakhimpur, Assam, situated at the far east corner of North East India is a region of rich biodiversity. Because of its location at the foothills of Arunachal Pradesh, an environment with heavy rainfall and high humidity, conducive for a significant floristic diversity prevails in this region. The native people of this region, the greater Assamese community, therefore depends to a large extent on the varied plant species for food and medicine besides other uses. An attempt has been made to explore and enumerate the potential ethno-medicinal plants used by the people of Lakhimpur district, Assam. The survey was conducted in some remote areas of the district occupied by Deori communities specially restricted to Narayanpur sub-division and a total of 58 medicinal plants comprising of 39 families were recorded. The ethonomedicobotanical exploration is carried out by concerning of the people who are related with making traditional medicine that orally prescribed. Different parts of these plants are used by the local inhabitants for the cure of some common ailments occurring in the areas. The data includes the list of such medicinal plants along with their local names, families, parts used, the method of treatment and the disease cured.
Highlights
Ever since the early times, different plants- whether herbs, shrubs or trees have been utilized by human beings for various purposes
The survey was on the basis of structured questionnaire to different villagers of the community, both male and female individually and in groups and aimed at to what extent the common people opt for local plants as traditional medicine that are in use from very old days
The genera- Terminalia, Cassia, Clerodendron and Croton contained the greatest number of plants. These ethno medicinal plants are found to be used for the treatment of about 40 diseases, most of them being the common ones like Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Cough and cold, Fever, Skin and stomach diseases etc., while the other rare ones included Nervous diseases, Menorrhagia, Piles, Liver and heart problems, Asthma etc
Summary
Ever since the early times, different plants- whether herbs, shrubs or trees have been utilized by human beings for various purposes. History reveals the extensive use of medicinal plants in different ways by the people of those times in the treatment of even dreadful diseases. Plants have been used as a medicinal agent since ancient times, first only on a folklore basis and later developed on a scientific way into a single agent drug [2]. Several investigations have been carried out by different workers at times on the use of plants for medicinal purposes by people. Have medicinal value while over 6000 plants are estimated to be explored in traditional, folk and herbal medicine[5] It was officially recognized that 2500 plant sp. have medicinal value while over 6000 plants are estimated to be explored in traditional, folk and herbal medicine[5]
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