Malaria is a parasitic disease caused by Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax, transmitted by a female Anopheles mosquito from the blood of an infected person to a healthy person. Malaria is one of the major problem in North-East India and Assam inparticular. Bodo, a tribe of Assam, depands mostly on forest resources for the treatment of several diseases. The present paper highlights on description and mode of utilization of 37 species of medicinally important plants used by the bodo people of the Assam in the treatment of Malaria.
Macrofungal diversity are gaining importance due to the fact that these group of organisms serve as important source of food as well as medicine. The present investigation was carried out in Garbhanga Reserve Forest of Kamrupdistrict of Assam. The study sites were selected randomly and macrofungi were collected during the monsoon season, 2015. Sixteen different macrofungi were collected from the forest. Among the collected macrofungi, four belonged to Agaricaceae, two to Xylariaceae and two to Tricholomataceae, one each to Cantharellaceae, Polyporaceae, Ganodermataceae, Auriculariaceae, Clavariaceae, Phallaceae, Hericiaceae.
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