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Phytotherapy used in orissa state, india for treating malaria
Author(s) -
Kantamreddi Venkata Siva Satyanarayana,
Parida Sagarika,
Kommula Suryanarayana Murty,
Wright Colin W.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
phytotherapy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.019
H-Index - 129
eISSN - 1099-1573
pISSN - 0951-418X
DOI - 10.1002/ptr.2611
Subject(s) - traditional medicine , malaria , ethnobotany , decoction , medicinal plants , phytotherapy , plant species , geography , botany , biology , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , immunology
This paper reports 35 medicinal plants belonging to 25 families used in the treatment of malaria by the people inhabiting the forests located near to Bhubaneswar, the capital city of Orissa, a south‐eastern state in India. The methods adopted for the preparation of plant parts are discussed along with their family and local name(s). The majority of the herbal preparations were made in the form of juices or by using water as the medium in the form of decoctions or infusions. Various plant parts, such as leaves, flowers, fruits, barks, stems, roots, and in some cases the whole plants are used to prepare these remedies each of which contains a single species. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.