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Volume 59, Issue 2, December 2017

Articles

Ethnomedicinal Investigations among the Baiga Tribes, District Anuppur, Madhya Pradesh, India

https://doi.org/10.20324/nelumbo/v59/2017/120450

Published 2017-12-01

  • Ramesh Kumar Ahirwar

Ramesh Kumar Ahirwar
Department of Botany, Government College Birsinghpur Pali, Umaria, Madhya Pradesh – 484551

Abstract

The ethnobotanical study was carried out among the ethnic group (Baiga tribe) in the Anuppur district of Madhya Pradesh during January 2015 to January 2016 to document the medicinal plants used by the Baiga tribe. Traditional uses of 68 plant species belonging to 44 genera and 39 families used to cure skin diseases, diarrhoea, jaundice, cough, wounds, piles, urinary troubles, asthma, tuberculosis, snakebite, gynaecological problems, heart diseases and as an eye drop are reported here.

Keywords

Ethnomedicine, Baiga Tribe, Traditional Medicine, Madhya Pradesh.

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