Abstract
The present communication deals with studies pertaining to field observations recorded on indigenous therapeutic applications of Dactylorhiza hatagirea (D. Don) Soo among the native people inhabiting high mountain areas of Uttarakhand, in western Himalaya. Information gathered from natives of the areas surveyed, indicated its uses to cure various diseases like dysentery, diarrhoea, chronic fever, cough, stomachache, wounds, cuts, burns, fractures, general weakness, etc., and widely used in modern medicine. Therefore, an attempt has been made to assess the medicinal potential of the species both in traditional as well as in modern medicine system. This paper provides the relevant properties of the high value medicinal orchid.
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