Ethnomedicinal plants used by the indigenous tribal communities of Arunachal Pradesh, India: a review

Bushi, Dhoni; Bam, Kenjum; Mahato, Ranjit; Nimasow, Gibji; Nimasow, Oyi Dai; Tag, Hui

doi:10.32859/era.22.34.1-40

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“…The usage and consumption of medicinal herbs compared to recent medical applicants were also revised. The ailments were grouped into fifteen different types as major disorders (Ramachandran, Nair, 1981;Lakshmanan, Sankara Narayanan, 1988;Venkatachalapathi et al, 2015;Bushil et al, 2021;Monari et al, 2022;Bargil et al, 2022). Each code number for broad type represents the major disorders and ailments.…”

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Ethnomedicinal plants used by Irula tribe in Tamil Nadu, India: A review

Selvaraj,

Chingath Ramanunni,

Ponnusamy

et al. 2023

AUPCStudiaNaturae

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Irulas are one of the dominant tribal communities in Southern India. The ethnobotanical knowledge used for medicinal purposes and daily food utilised by the indigenous community from Tamil Nadu, India was reviewed and presented. All the available literature, articles, reports, books and websites were reviewed for the present work. A total of 60 published records were found on ethnobotany and medicinal plants of Irulas starting from 1980 to 2023 from Tamil Nadu which was reviewed and analysed here. In this review, about 34 publications were represented from the Coimbatore district as a major contribution and 11 from Nilgiris district. A total of 663 species and 462 genera belonging to 121 families were used by the Irulas community from Tamil Nadu state. Overall, 15 major broad-type disorders were categorised for the utilisation of plant species under different ailments and diseases. About 417 species were consumed for general health purposes and disorders of fever, cold, cough, headache, migraine, cuts, wounds, and body pain, followed by 288 species for gastrointestinal and 177 species for dermatological disorders. The present review on ethnomedicinal plants provides updated valuable information and amend on the traditional folk medicine and daily food utilised by the indigenous tribe of Tamil Nadu. The ethnobotanical data could play a major role in the medicinal plant of RET species conservation. Also, this will serve as a great potential value for the locals and urban environment.

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Ethnomedicinal plants used by Irula tribe in Tamil Nadu, India: A review

Selvaraj,

Chingath Ramanunni,

Ponnusamy

et al. 2023

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“…used for medicinal purposes either at commercial or domestic scale. Quite a few researchers reviewed that among the herbal plants, composition of medicinal trees is between 20-24% (Perme et al 2015, Borah et al 2020, Bushi et al 2021). However, medicinal trees have the advantage of long gestation and regular yield in comparison to others.…”

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Cultural and livelihood relationship between medicinal trees at-risk and indigenous people of Madhya Pradesh

Patil,

Jha

2024

Ethnobot. Res. App.

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Background: Indigenous communities depended on forest resources for food, shelter, health care and cultural need throughout the world. Such association existed in central India too where many medicinal trees are at risk due to their worrisome conservation status. Therefore, the study was taken to understand the dependency of indigenous people on medicinal trees at-risk (MTR) for livelihood, medicinal use, and their cultural need.Methods: Qualitative methods of research (questionnaire survey, structured interview and focus group discussion) along with quantitative method (field survey: crop availability and regeneration status) were employed.Results: Medicinal trees were the part of their culture as they used them in family functions and religious ceremonies. The MTR products were used for health care along with some livelihood options (sale of gums and resins), though with low dependency. Two cross culture use models showing people-MTR relationship could be developed using basic and published information: i. plant-ailment-community and ii. ailment-plant-community. Indigenous Traditional Knowledge (ITK) related to these trees was disappearing due to noninvolvement of youth in traditional occupation, reduced use and resources were on decline due to poor regeneration, climatic events-based (drought, flash flood) and natural (stem hollowness) damages. Conclusion:Though the dependency was low, survival of MTR as well as ITK was in danger. For their conservation, a mechanism of shared management responsibility and revisit of nistar policy (free of cost use of forest resources) is suggested along with detail recording and promotion of ITK.

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Ethnomedicinal plants used by the indigenous tribal communities of Arunachal Pradesh, India: a review

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Ethnomedicinal plants used by Irula tribe in Tamil Nadu, India: A review

Ethnomedicinal plants used by Irula tribe in Tamil Nadu, India: A review

Cultural and livelihood relationship between medicinal trees at-risk and indigenous people of Madhya Pradesh

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