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Ethnomedicinal studies on plants used by Yanadi tribe of Chandragiri reserve forest area, Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh, India

AIM: Ethnomedicinal studies on medicinal plants used by Yanadi tribe of Chandragiri reserve forest area are documented during the period of 2014-2015. The study is mainly focused on medicinal importance of plants used by Yanadi tribe to treat various ailments. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The information...

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Autores principales: Savithramma, Nataru, Yugandhar, Pulicherla, Prasad, Koya Siva, Ankanna, Sade, Chetty, Kummara Madhava
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Publicado: SAGEYA 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4805147/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27069725
http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/jice.20160122065531
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author Savithramma, Nataru
Yugandhar, Pulicherla
Prasad, Koya Siva
Ankanna, Sade
Chetty, Kummara Madhava
author_facet Savithramma, Nataru
Yugandhar, Pulicherla
Prasad, Koya Siva
Ankanna, Sade
Chetty, Kummara Madhava
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description AIM: Ethnomedicinal studies on medicinal plants used by Yanadi tribe of Chandragiri reserve forest area are documented during the period of 2014-2015. The study is mainly focused on medicinal importance of plants used by Yanadi tribe to treat various ailments. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The information collected on treated ailments, part used, preparation, combination, and addition of ingredients to prepare herbal medicines with the help of standard questionnaire. RESULTS: During the study, 53 types of ailments were treated using 48 medicinal plants belongs to 26 families were documented. Among the medicinal plants, shrubs (15) were most using life form of plants for the preparation of herbal medicines. Leaf part (40%), paste form (33%), and oral administration (63%) of herbal medicines were most preferable. The documented ethnomedicinal importance of this tribe was cross-checked with Dr. Duke’s Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical database shows most of the plants were correlated with this database. CONCLUSION: There is no record of traditional medicinal knowledge of these villages so far, hence the present study is aimed to document the information on medicinal plants used by Yanadi tribe in Chandragiri reserve forest area. The correlation of ethnomedicinal uses with Dr. Duke’s Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical database clearly indicates the high medicinal significance of claimed data of this Yanadi tribe.
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spelling pubmed-48051472016-04-11 Ethnomedicinal studies on plants used by Yanadi tribe of Chandragiri reserve forest area, Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh, India Savithramma, Nataru Yugandhar, Pulicherla Prasad, Koya Siva Ankanna, Sade Chetty, Kummara Madhava J Intercult Ethnopharmacol Original Research AIM: Ethnomedicinal studies on medicinal plants used by Yanadi tribe of Chandragiri reserve forest area are documented during the period of 2014-2015. The study is mainly focused on medicinal importance of plants used by Yanadi tribe to treat various ailments. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The information collected on treated ailments, part used, preparation, combination, and addition of ingredients to prepare herbal medicines with the help of standard questionnaire. RESULTS: During the study, 53 types of ailments were treated using 48 medicinal plants belongs to 26 families were documented. Among the medicinal plants, shrubs (15) were most using life form of plants for the preparation of herbal medicines. Leaf part (40%), paste form (33%), and oral administration (63%) of herbal medicines were most preferable. The documented ethnomedicinal importance of this tribe was cross-checked with Dr. Duke’s Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical database shows most of the plants were correlated with this database. CONCLUSION: There is no record of traditional medicinal knowledge of these villages so far, hence the present study is aimed to document the information on medicinal plants used by Yanadi tribe in Chandragiri reserve forest area. The correlation of ethnomedicinal uses with Dr. Duke’s Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical database clearly indicates the high medicinal significance of claimed data of this Yanadi tribe. SAGEYA 2016-01-27 /pmc/articles/PMC4805147/ /pubmed/27069725 http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/jice.20160122065531 Text en Copyright: © SAGEYA http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted, noncommercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Original Research
Savithramma, Nataru
Yugandhar, Pulicherla
Prasad, Koya Siva
Ankanna, Sade
Chetty, Kummara Madhava
Ethnomedicinal studies on plants used by Yanadi tribe of Chandragiri reserve forest area, Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh, India
title Ethnomedicinal studies on plants used by Yanadi tribe of Chandragiri reserve forest area, Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh, India
title_full Ethnomedicinal studies on plants used by Yanadi tribe of Chandragiri reserve forest area, Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh, India
title_fullStr Ethnomedicinal studies on plants used by Yanadi tribe of Chandragiri reserve forest area, Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh, India
title_full_unstemmed Ethnomedicinal studies on plants used by Yanadi tribe of Chandragiri reserve forest area, Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh, India
title_short Ethnomedicinal studies on plants used by Yanadi tribe of Chandragiri reserve forest area, Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh, India
title_sort ethnomedicinal studies on plants used by yanadi tribe of chandragiri reserve forest area, chittoor district, andhra pradesh, india
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4805147/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27069725
http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/jice.20160122065531
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