This is the first ethnobotanical exploration to document the folk medicinal usage of plants with therapeutic antidiabetic properties by the Pnar tribes of East Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya. Forty-one practitioners and knowledgeable people were interviewed using a semi-structured questionnaire. Field ...
Healthy plants (Centella asiatica, Houttuynia cordata and Potentilla fulgens) used by different Traditional Medicinal Practitioners (TMPs) were collected from different parts of Meghalaya [7] based on their ethnomedicinal usages. The taxonomic identity of the plants was confirmed with the help of Herba...
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MEDICINAL ORCHIDS OF MEGHALAYA Orchids represent the largest and most important group of flowering plants in Meghalaya. Besides ornamental importance some of them are used as medicinal plants. Many of these orchid plants are used to cure a variety of diseases and diso... AR Roy,R S Patel,V...
of North East India have been categorized into two broad ethnic communities, such as the Khasi and the Jaintia tribe of Meghalaya, who belong to 'Monkhemar' culture of Austoic dialect, and the rest of the tribal groups are basically Mongoloid, who belongs to Tibeto-Burman subfamily of ...
Use of ethno-medicinal plants by Jaintia Tribe of North East India The "Jaintia tribe" of Cachar district of Assam mainly confined to remote villages and they have migrated from Jowai district of Meghalaya of North East In... MK Baruah - 《International Journal of Plant Sciences》 被引量:...
Phytochemical screening to validate the ethnobotanical importance of root tubers of Dioscorea species of Meghalaya, North East India Nilofer Sheikh*, Yogendra Kumar, A.K.Misra, Lokho Pfoze [abstract] [download] J. Med. Plants. Stud. | pages: 62-69 | 2852 views 561 downloads India 11 Va...
also recorded the highest use as part of local folk medicines [19,20,40–47]. Surveys other than our own research from north-eastern India indicate the same [48,49]. However, for the tribal populations of the Garo hills in Meghalaya (NE India) Sharma and Khan [43] observed that drugs...
The tribals of Meghalaya State in north- east India use the whole plant for treatment of diarrhea [28]. The Deb barma healer used the plant, Ageratum conyzoides, for treatment of stomach disorders. Use of this plant in traditional medicine for treatment of diarrhea has been reported from ...
An attempt has been made during 2012-2014 at to enumerate the ethno-medicinal evaluation and socio-economic importance of underutilized and unexploited fruits among the Garo tribe of west Garo hills district, Meghalaya, north-east India. The study was based on extensive field surveys, sample coll...