Abstract
The Folk medicinal practitioner (FMP) or Kabiraj plays a key role to provide health support mainly to village people. They are mainly dependent on the pants parts available around them and many modern medicines are being synthesized by extracting the active chemicals from plants. The main objective of this study is to document the plants used by the FMPs of two villages of Jamalpur sadar upazila. For this study, we conducted a survey based on semi structured method. We found they use mainly 31 plants belonging to 25 families. The part mostly used is leave (31.75%) and the least used is the flower (6.34%). It is found that almost 18 types of diseases are being cured by their formulation. This study also suggested that, the FMPs treat many common disorder like gastro intestinal disorder, Respiratory tract infection, diabetes, Skin disorder etc. and also various complicated disorder such as debility, anemia, neural disorder etc. This study may be helpful to create scientific view about the plants used by the FMPs of Jamalpur sadar upazila and these plants might be used to synthesize drug molecule of interest.
 Asian J. Med. Biol. Res. December 2018, 4(4): 422-426
Highlights
Folk medicinal practice is very common in Bangladesh
Folk medicinal practice is common in other parts of the world
Several anti-cancer drugs for example camptothecin, ingenol-3-Oangelate, phenoxoidal and epipodophyllotoxin have been discovered through folk medicinal practice
Summary
Folk medicinal practice is very common in Bangladesh. There might be found at least one folk medicinal practitioner in (FMP) known Kaviraj in every village or community in Bangladesh. Folk medicinal practice is common in other parts of the world. In addition to Indian sub-continent countries like India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh other countries like Turkey, China and Japan their traditional folk medicines (Jannat et al, 2015; Rahmatullah et al, 2010a). Majority (80%) of the people in developing countries rely on traditional medicines for the treatment of primary healthcare as medicinal plants are attainable and cheap too (Nyamanga et al, 2008; Sultana and Rahmatullah, 2016). Several anti-cancer drugs for example camptothecin, ingenol-3-Oangelate, phenoxoidal and epipodophyllotoxin have been discovered through folk medicinal practice
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