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Volume 64, Issue 2, December 2022

Articles

An ethnobotanical survey of useful wild plants in Dzongri-Goecha La, Sikkim, India

https://doi.org/10.20324/nelumbo/v64/2022/172609

Published 2022-12-31

  • Subhajit Lahiri
    • ,
  • Sudhansu Sekhar Dash

Subhajit Lahiri
Central National Herbarium, Botanical Survey of India, Howrah - 711103

Sudhansu Sekhar Dash
Botanical Survey of India, CGO Complex, Salt Lake, Kolkata - 700064

Abstract

The paper deals with a review of 62 different uses of 78 plant species belonging to 32 families for the treatment of 32 major ailments among rural communities of Sikkim Himalaya. During the different exploration of plants in Dzongri-Goche La region of Sikkim Himalaya, the different traditional uses association with the plants were collected from selected informants and also from published literatures. The traditional uses pattern, parts used for, mode of preparation and administration of doses were reviewed and documented.

Keywords

Kanchenjunga Biosphere Reserve, Limboo, Medicinal plants, Traditional knowledge, West Sikkim

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