Sharma V. K, Diwan R. K, Saxena R. C, Shrivastava P. N, Saxena R. Survey Report of Medicinal Plant Used in Folk Medicine in Tribal Areas of Pandhurna, District Chhindwara (Madhya Pradesh). Biomed Pharmacol J 2010;3(2)

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Manuscript accepted on :September 30, 2010
Published online on: 25-11-2015

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V. K. Sharma, R. K. Diwan, R. C. Saxena, P. N. Shrivastava and Rahul Saxena*

¹Pest Control and Ayurvedic Drug Research Laboratory, S.S.L. Jain P.G. College, Vidisha India.

²School of Pharmacy Nimmins, University, Shirpur Campus, Maharastra India.

Abstract

66 locally available plants of 40 families have been listed below which are used in folk medicine by the natives of Tehsil Pandhura of District Chhindwara, M.P. The lists of the plants have been prepared in alphabetical order along with their local names and medicinal uses of each plant.

Keywords

Tribal areas; Folk medicine; Ethnomedicinal; Herbal medicine

Introdcution

Chhindwara district is situated on Satpura plateau at 1550 – 3820 feet above the sea level. The district lies between 21.28 to 22.49 deg. North (longitude) and 78.40 to 79. 24 deg. East (latitude). Pandhurna tehsil head quarter is situated at Bhopal-Nagpur highway (NH-69) and above 100 km. away form Chhindwara. Gond tribes are the main inhabitants of the teshil. The villagers still practice herbal medicines. The knowledge of these medicines is age old. For them, use of herbs is the cheapest way for cure of various health disorders. So for, there is no any primary health centre in many villages.

In India Dixit and Panday (1984) and sinha and Dogra (1985) have reported the plants used as folk medicine in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh and Santhal Pargana in Bihar. Kirtikar & Basu have also worked on Medicinal plants of India (1935). A lot of work has been done also on ethno medicinal plants in Madhya Pradesh (Rai et al 2000; Koli et al, 2000 & 02; Saxena et al, 2000 & 02 and Acharya Deepak, 2000 & 04)

But still there are some tribal pockets which could be surveyed for the search of new traditional medicines. We report the ethno medicinal plants of tehsil Pandhurna for the first time.

Materials and Methods

The survey reported in this study was performed during the period of 2008-09 and was confined to the remote tribal areas of tehsil Pandhurna in Chhindwara district of Madhya Pradesh only. Plants were recorded with the help local vaidhyas and   senior people having knowledge of local herbs. The plants were collected and the identity of the plants were confirmed by the botanist, botany deportment S.S.L. Jain  P.G. College Vidisha & submitted to the herbarium of Pest Control & Ayurvedic Drug Research Laboratory Vidisha, M.P..

Table 1: Some Medicinal plants with their uses of tehsil Pandhurna of distt. Chhindwara of M.P.

Result and Discussion:-

The traditional knowledge of tribal communities in Pandhurna tehsil has high ethno botanical importance. They utilize numerous plants and their various parts viz, roots, leaves, stems, flowers and fruits in various ways. A total no. of 66 plant species belonging to 58 genera under 30 families are used to daily life of the Gond tribes. Out of 66 plant Cassia tora & Achyranthes aspera are most common herb of the area. It distributes in almost all part the Pandhurna tehsil while Anacyclus pyrethrum  & Trichosanthes palmata plants have a minute occurrence in the area. According to senior people-before 5-10 years ago these were modetary distributed but due to over exploitation, it limited up to dance forest of Sillevani valley only. The tribals are so innocent and some times they misguided and misused by some pharmaceutical brokers and shop keepers of herbal drugs. They explored a large quantity of medicinal plant without leaving a single ex-plant. There is a need to organize a training program on sustainable utilization of medicinal plant, otherwise many expensive medicines will be lost forever.

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