Ethnomedicinal plants used by the villagers of district Udhampur, J&amp;K, India

Bhatia, Harpreet; Sharma, Yashpal; Manhas, R. K.; Kumar, Kewal

doi:10.1016/j.jep.2013.12.017

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“…Plants are a source of food, fodder, fuel, etc., and the use of plants as herbal medicines to cure various ailments parallels human civilization (Dubey et al, 2004). Ethnopharmacology involves the investigation of plants use in traditional communities to further our understanding of the pharmacological basis of these culturally important medicinal plants (Bhatia et al, 2014).…”

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“…A fascination towards western lifestyles, industrialization, migration from rural to urban areas for jobs and education, allopathic medicine, and deforestation may underlie this change in behavior. Therefore, the need to collect and systematically document this valuable traditional knowledge is urgent for the interest of humanity before it is lost forever (Bhatia et al, 2014). TZahoor et al (2009) and Khan et al (2013) studied the ethnobotany of the Lakki Marwat…”

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Ethnomedicinal plant use value in the Lakki Marwat District of Pakistan

Ullah

Khan

Shah

et al. 2014

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

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Ethnomedicinal plant use value in the Lakki Marwat District of Pakistan

Ullah

Khan

Shah

et al. 2014

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

108

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“…If FL value is higher (100%) for plants, it means that all use reports refer to the same way of using it, however, if the values being low then that plant might be used for many different purposes or ailments. (Musa et al, 2011, Bhatia et al, 2014.…”

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“…Retained placenta after delivery WP 1 kg of whole plant boiled in 5 liters water till 1/4 left and then this decoction given orally two times daily of retained placenta. 15 …”

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Harnessing of local plant species by indigenous people of Hamirpur district for ethno-veterinary purposes

Singh

Chongtham

Bhatti³

et al. 2017

Ann.Pl.Sci.

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Traditional medicines have been playing significant role in livestock health care management since long especially in remote area. This paper is based on a field survey conducted to collect information for curing different ailments utilized by local people and tribals in the Hamirpur district, Himachal Pradesh. Total 541 households were interviewed involved as informants with fully prepared questionnaires; proper interaction along with group discussion. Information were collected from the selected sites regarding way to cure different ailments of animals which was further analyzed for the authenticity of data through different statistical quantitative indices. We found total 121 plant species belonging to 61 families that have been documented to be of common use for curing 78 different types of livestock. Total ailments were categorized into fifteen major categories based on the body organ systems of livestock. The highest number of ethno-medicinal plants were recorded from family Fabaceae followed by Asteraceae and other families. Leaves were the most commonly used part of the plant for the preparation of ethno-medicinal medicines followed by other plant parts. Achyranthes aspera, Acorus calamus, Pogostemon benghalensis are the most important plants used to cure different ailments on the basis of use value index. On the basis of Informant Consensus factor (FIC), diseases related to digestive system, reproductive system, respiratory and fever were considered as major ailments in the livestock. In conclusion, we found in this study that most of the plants are widely used to cure different ailments as reported previously by different workers. However, on the first hand, many new findings to cure different ailments of livestock have been found during this survey indicating need for conducting more studies to get valuable information from the local community which are not documented yet. It was also found that indigenous people have excellent information with respect to ethnoecological aspect. There is an urgent need to study and document the traditional uses before they are disappeared from the society or community and further study must be integrated with qualitative and quantatitative data to assess importance of plants for ethno-veterinery purposes.

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“…The whole plant or different parts have high ethnomedicinal importance. The seeds have carminative and styptic properties and cooling effect; leaves are useful in the treatment of horse bite (Jain, 1991;Ambasta, 1994;Rana and Samant, 2011;Bhatia et al, 2014;Shedayi et al, 2014). Plant extract is used to cure inflammation, rheumatoid arthritis, cough with cold, stomach-ache, dysmenorrhea, altitude sickness, cancer, bacterial diseases, wounds and fatigue (Ahmad et al, 2009;Bisht and Purohit, 2010;Habiba et al, 2016).…”

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Antibacterial activity, metabolites and elemental analysis of Saussurea candicans C. B. Clarke

Puri

Sidhu

Sharma

2017

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Phytochemical analysis of ethanol and water extracts of Saussurea candicans has indicated the presence of flavonoides, phenolics, tannins, etc., that supports its use in traditional medicine both for human and animals in different parts of the world. S. candicans is a plant of medicinal interest hence selected for analysis. Antibacterial activity of the two extracts was tested against Enterococcus faecalis, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Staphylococcus aureus. Only the ethanol extract was found to be effective. Both aqueous and ethanol extracts were prepared and studied for different phytochemicals such as alkaloids, flavonoides, phenolics, and steroids and also for their antibacterial activity using agar well diffusion method. The Fourier transform infrared and wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy of whole plant powder were done to study the functional groups and elemental profile, respectively. The aqueous extract contains more (11) phytochemicals as compared to ethanol (9). No zone of inhibition was observed at different volumes of the extract, i.e., 20 μl, 50 μl and 100 μl but at 150 μl, and 200 μl concentration of 230.7 mg/ml plant extracts, the zone of inhibition was reported. The dose of 150 μl concentration active only against E. faecalis, whereas, 200 μl concentration showed activity against all bacterial strains. Only the ethanol extract had antibacterial activity against all the tested bacteria. The medicinal activity of S. candicans is assumed to be because of the presence of different phytochemicals and elements. Further study can be conducted to understand the role of each and every reported phytochemicals and elements.

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Ethnomedicinal plants used by the villagers of district Udhampur, J&K, India

Cited by 168 publications

References 34 publications

Ethnomedicinal plant use value in the Lakki Marwat District of Pakistan

Ethnomedicinal plant use value in the Lakki Marwat District of Pakistan

Harnessing of local plant species by indigenous people of Hamirpur district for ethno-veterinary purposes

Antibacterial activity, metabolites and elemental analysis of Saussurea candicans C. B. Clarke

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