Open AccessTraditional use of fish based ethnomedicine in the treatment of some diseases in Eastern Tarai of Nepal
Author(s) -
Praveen Kumar,
Shishir Kumar Verma,
Bharat Raj Subba
Publication year - 2015
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2091-1343
DOI - 10.3126/njbs.v5i1.41744
Subject(s) - fish <actinopterygii> , ethnomedicine , traditional medicine , geography , vertebrate , fishery , biology , medicine , medicinal plants , biochemistry , gene
Nature has provided resources for human beings to use them in manifolds ways making their life to run smoothly in whatever ways they can by preserving the things they use. Fish is an easily available aquatic vertebrate which is of much concerned stuff with rural peoples who not only relish fish stuff but use traditionally whole body of the fish or extract of some parts in the treatment of diseases. Nine species of fish have been recorded in the Tarai region of eastern Nepal to have been used in the traditional medicine for the treatment of diseases.