Ethnomedicinal use of some of the plants of Udhampur District of Jammu and Kashmir, India
Tarun Thakur1, Touseef Hussain Trak2 and Jagriti Tripathi3
1Department of Botany, Unique College, P.G. College Bhopal-462003 (India) 2Department of Botany, Government Degree College Kishtwar Jammu and Kashmir-182204 (India) 3Department of Botany, Unique College, P.G. College, Bhopal-462003 (India)
ABSTRACT
Ethnomedicinal researches have been geared up in past few decades. But much of the valuable information still lies undocumented and endemic. This research paper focuses on the extensively used medicinal plants by the local people, villagers, tribal and traditional practitioners of Udhampur district. The documented information has been extracted by framing a semi-structured questionnaire and an anthropological approach. The paper, enclose in itself, 21 plant species of different families. The plant parts used for ethnomedicinal purposes include in majority the leaves and roots. But nevertheless, the documentation of fruits, seeds, barks, flower buds, gum and latex have also been reported and were found in use in different medicinal formulations. The present work is a documentation of the ethnic, endemic and inadequately explored ethno medicinal plants and their medicinal values. It will provide an insight to the vast natural resources of India. Such documented information would be useful for the Nation and Worldwide entrepreneurs and the corporate, for commercial production of drugs. It also emphasizes on the usage of the bio-physiological values of these medicinal plants for economic and sustainable development of our nation (India).