Open AccessInvestigation of Ethano Medicinal Plant used by Banjara Tribe in Mantha Tahasil, District Jalana, Maharashtra
Author(s) -
M.S. Wankhade and M.N. Bokhad
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of modern trends in science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2455-3778
DOI - 10.46501/ijmtst0710003
Subject(s) - tribe , ethnobotany , indigenous , traditional knowledge , traditional medicine , geography , agroforestry , medicinal plants , bark (sound) , plant species , biology , botany , forestry , ecology , medicine , sociology , anthropology
Ethnomedicinal surveys can potentially bring out many different clues for the development of safe, effective and inexpensiveindigenous remedies. Present study has been focused on Banjara tribe of Mantha tahesil district Jalana of Maharashtra, India.Banjara tribes in this area have been using number of plants in their traditional medicine. The ethnomedicinal survey brought tolight 51 medicinal plants belonging to 32 families distributed in 23 genera used very commonly by this Tribe. The different plantparts like stem, leaves, fruit, flower, bark, root, seed and pod were used by this tribal community. The plants were identified withrelevant information and are documented with their botanical name, family, local name, parts used, mode of preparation anduses. Documenting the indigenous knowledge through ethnobotanical studies is important for the conservation and utilization ofbiological resources and for the wale fare of human being.