Volume : IV, Issue : X, October - 2014

PTERIDOPHYTIC MEDICINAL PLANTS USED BY THE GOND TRIBE OF KORBA DISTRICT, CHHATTISGARH, INDIA

Gond, D. , Bora, M. , Tiwari, R. K.

Abstract :

The present communication deals with the indigenous traditional knowledge (ITK) on some ethno–medicinal plants used by the Gond tribe of Korba district, Chhattisgarh, India for treating various health ailments. Tribal’s people are the ecosystem people who live in harmony with the nature and maintain a close link between man and environment. The Gond tribes use many of the pteridophytic plants species in and around the vicinity in various therapeutic uses including treatment of common skin ailments like wounds, eczema as well as gastro–intestinal problems such as diarrhoea, dysentery, and snake bite, fracture of bone, etc. The present paper provides information of 16 plants belonging to 12 families used by the tribe as medicine in the treatment of various diseases.

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Gond, D., Bora, M., Tiwari, R.K. Pteridophytic Medicinal Plants Used by the Gond Tribe of Korba District, Chhattisgarh, India Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.4, Issue : 10 October 2014

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