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In Parbat district, tribal communities rear livestock mostly cattle, buffalo, goats, sheep etc. Most of the time animal diseases are treated by the uses of local herbal medicines extracted from the plants. All together 21 plant species belonging to 19 families are being identified having used to treat different veterinary diseases like; injury, poisoning, foot and mouth, wounds, stomach disorder, antiworms and bone facture of animals. These ethnoveterinary plants species are normally collected from nearby forest or natural vegetation. Some of them like, Acorus calamus, Cuscuta reflexa, Schima wallichii, Fraxinus floribunda etc are even domesticated by them in nearby cropland therefore such plants are readily available at any time. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/kuset.v8i1.6042 KUSET 2012; 8(1): 44-50

Indigenous people of Meghalaya have ethnobotanical utility of 19 species of plants belonging to 3genera; Artocarpus, Ficus and Morus under the family Moraceae. Fruits of all these plants are eatenraw or cooked or pickled. Young vegetative shoot of Ficus virens sre eaten as vegetable. Woods areused as fuel woods and timber. Leaves and young shoots are lopped as fodder for stallfed cattle tosupplement paddy straw during winter. Young leaves of Morus australis and M. serrata are used forrearing silkworms. Children in the village use latex from the fruits of Artocarpus heterophyllus tomake sticky gum for hunting birds.Keywords: Ethnobotany; Moraceae; MeghalayaDOI: 10.3126/kuset.v6i1.3301Kathmandu University Journal of Science, Engineering and Technology Vol.6(1) 2010, pp 5-10

Present study aims to focus on the hidden indigenous knowledge on medicinal non- timber forest products (NTFP) among the four ethnic tribes (Gurung, Magar, Kumal and Majhi) of Parbat district. NTFP are being collected from the different areas of the local forests. Ethnobotanical investigation has been carried out to accumulate traditional knowledge on the use of 28 species of plants belonging to 27 genera under 22 families. Relative reliability index (RRI) has been calculated for rating different plant species having medicinal value. © 2011 IGJPS. All rights reserved.

The aim of present research was to record the indigenous knowledge on medicinal plants of Parbat district, Nepal. Field trips were arranged to collect the plants and ethnobotanical information from the study area during 2011 to 2012. The paper dealt with ethnobotanical plants along with their local names, parts and ethnomedicinal uses prescribed by ethnic tribes Gurung, Magar and Majhi of the district. A total of 61 plant species belonging to 59 genera and 43 families had been used by the local tribes for curing various human diseases. The plant specimens were also collected dried, pressed, mounted on herbarium sheets and deposited to the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Kathmandu University. The investigation provided immense scope for the active principle analysis and clinical studies of these ethnomedicinal plants for future drug development.