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VOL. 6, ISSUE 3 (2021)
Ethnomedicinal survey of plants used by the traditional medicinal practitioners of Chitradurga District, Karnataka State, India with emphases on the protection of traditional knowledge and threatened species
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Sudhama VN, Mani Ramakrishnan
Abstract
Maintaining the data of medicinally significant herbs used by the traditional medicinal practitioners for therapy pave way for recording and unveiling traditional knowledge to this modern herbal drug researchers and industries. In this framework, an extensive survey was conducted among the local ethnic healers in Chitradurga district, Karnataka state, India. A systematic exploration of herbal medicinal plants was carried out in the different villages of six taluks of the district based on field visits and interviews in their native local language using a standard questionnaire. In the survey, traditional medicinal knowledge of practitioners was documented. A sum of 190 medicinal herbs belonging to 156 genera and 75 families used by the 112 practitioners have been recorded, authenticated, listed and categorized. Traditional knowledge of medicinal plants, their parts used, drug formulations, and dosages including treatment methods was documented. The practitioners found difficult to get certain seasonal medicinal herbs for treatment and listed them under rare and threatened species. Medicinal practitioners belonging to the different ethnic communities were interviewed to record several herbal medicinal plants used in their traditional knowledge to treat diseases and reported the herbal formulations for certain ailments as well. The survey also revealed the nine medicinally important threatened herbal species and recommended biotechnological methods to restore the threatened species. Our findings would be a useful massive database for phyto-pharmaceutical researchers for novel herbal drug development.
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Pages:402-411
How to cite this article:
Sudhama VN, Mani Ramakrishnan "Ethnomedicinal survey of plants used by the traditional medicinal practitioners of Chitradurga District, Karnataka State, India with emphases on the protection of traditional knowledge and threatened species ". International Journal of Botany Studies, Vol 6, Issue 3, 2021, Pages 402-411
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