Abstract

STUDY ON SOME IMPORTANT MEDICINAL PLANT OF PUTKA HILLS AND SATRENGA OF KORBA CHHATTISGARH

Kamini Kaushik*

Abstract

Numerous plants have been used for treating human diseases and disorders in our country since ancient times. Medicinal plants are the most exclusive source of life saving drugs for the world population. Plants used in medicine are freely available in forest and villages in different part of India. The tribal people depend on forests for their livelihood and most of the rural people still depend on traditional medicines as a primary healthcare source. The study highlights the rich plant resources and the vast wealth of ethanobotanical information available with the various tribes of the region. Putka hill is the famous place in Korba district of Chhattisgarh. Another site is Satranga it is located 45 km from the Korba district. Here numerous amount of medicinal plants have been found. The present study deals with the medicinal plants on the Putka hills, where 27 variety of plant species belonging to 20 families have been found. Another area Satrenga where 17 variety of plant species belonging to 15 families were found. These plants are commonly used in vomiting, diarrhea, ringworm, ear pain, gastric problem, stone, infertility, diabetes and blood pressure etc. The present work listing the main objective of work is to give the information and documentation of medicinal plant used by tribal people of the study site.

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