Abstract
It is of interest to list plants and its usage in olden days. The history of plants is closely related with the history of medicine since time immemorial. Various literature data shows the usage of medicinal plants. It is linked to various system of medicine like Siddha, Ayurveda and Unani. This is in practice for more than 5000 years. People in olden age had a detailed knowledge on these plants. Hence, we collected such data from the first five volumes of Epigraphia Indica, which was published, by the Archeological survey of India from 1882 to 1977. These data provides a framework on various plants and its usage in various ways, in different time period in human history. This helps us to drive valuable bio-medical information for application in modern scientific biomedical methods. We further plan to sort and glean such data so as to help in evaluating the total biomedical data in Epigraphia Indica to extract useful biological knowledge for application in evidence-based biomedicine.
Highlights
An epigraph on the stone named as inscriptions commonly gives us historical record, which is maintained for the future generations
Epigraphia Indica volume 3 (1895) (Table 3) Areca nuts, jack-fruits, plantains, cocoa-nuts and mangoes:(Ranganatha Inscriptions of Sundara-pandya, Page no. 15) The following plants name was found in the inscription, which was found on the east wall of second prakara of the temples of Ranganatha on the place of Srirangam inTrichinopoly taluka
The use of Indian MEDICINAL PLANTS is well documented in Siddha, Ayurveda and Unani
Summary
Submitted on July 15, 2020; Revision August 5, 2020; Accepted August 6, 2020; Published September 30, 2020. The authors are responsible for the content of this article. The Editorial and the publisher has taken reasonable steps to check the content of the article with reference to publishing ethics with adequate peer reviews deposited at PUBLONS. Declaration on Publication Ethics: The authors state that they adhere with COPE guidelines on publishing ethics as described elsewhere at https://publicationethics.org/. The authors undertake that they are not associated with any other third party (governmental or non-governmental agencies) linking with any form of unethical issues connecting to this publication. The authors declare that they are not withholding any information that is misleading to the publisher in regard to this article
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