Abstract

An ethno medicinal survey was conducted to collect the information about medicinal plants used by tribal people located in the jambuthu malai, Salem District, Tamilnadu, India. About 32 medicinal plants were used in various health problems; Majority of the plant part were leaves. The most representative family was Euphorbiaceae with 10 species, Asclepiadaceae 5 species, Apocynaceae 7 species and Malvaceae 6 species each and Liliaceae 3 species, Asteraceae 3 species, Caesalpiniaceae 2 species, Solanaceae 4 species. The other family had 1 species each associated with the treatment of the reports. The treatment mode were usually oral, but most of the plants used in paste. They use ethno medicinal plants to treatments like cold, cough, headache, stomachache, dysentery, skin disease, poison bites, cut and wounds, diabetes and sexual disorders.

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