Indigenous Ethno-Medicinal and Ethno-Veterinary Practices in Shivalik Hills Zone of Himachal Pradesh, India
Journal Title: Asian Journal of Advanced Basic Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 6, Issue 2
Abstract
Shivalik hills are the rich repository of diverse aromatic and medicinal plants. The present study focused on the analysis, documentation and interpretation of indigenous ethno-medicinal and ethno-veterinary practices in Shivalik hills zone of Himachal Pradesh, North-West Himalaya. During the study, a total of two hundred species of plants have been identified and enumerated. The highest number of species belongs to the families Brassicaceae, Cucurbitaceae, Leguminosae, Asteraceae, Euphorbiaceae, Solanaceae, Ranunculaceae and Sapindaceae. A wide range of diseases of human ranging from cough and cold to asthma and bronchitis, cuts and wounds to snakebites, and are treated by the traditional healers of study area with the help of these local plant remedies. Some of these plants are also used for ethno-veterinarian practices by livestock owners to diagnose animal diseases like foot and mouth disease, constipation, dysentery and de-worming etc. It was observed that unsustainable collection methods, poor post-harvest methods, soil erosion, intense deforestation and grazing animals are causing serious threat to these plants.
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Gulshan Kumar, Hem Chander
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