Abstract
Khare-vokkaliga is one of the small ethnic communities inhabiting four village hamlets in Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka, which is located in the heart of the Western Ghats in India. They used traditional medicines for the treatment of diseases and disorders that affected the community. A survey of ethnomedicinal practices followed by the community was conducted during 2003-04 which indicated that Khare-vokkaliga used 57 plant species of 56 genera and 38 families for the treatment of 39 diseases and disorders in human beings. Among them, 20 species of 19 genera of 16 families are being used to treat 6 infectious diseases and 44 species of 43 genera of 33 families are used to treat 33 non-infectious diseases. The high informant consensus factor (ICF=1.0) was assigned to jaundice category followed by moderate ICF (0.37) to the poisonous bite category and lowest (ICF=0.00) to the treatment of skin and eye related problems. This study reports 11 new claims for the treatment of human diseases and disorders.
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