ETHNOBOTANICAL STUDY OF SOME MEDICINAL PLANTS OF HARYANA, INDIA
Gitika and Manoj Kumar*
ABSTRACT
The present study reveals the ethnobotany and traditional medicinal uses of some medicinal plants of Haryana state, during different seasons in 2015-2016. In the survey, a total of 66 plant species belonging to 30 families were identified on the basis of their ethnomedicinal importance revealed by the local informants. For each plant species necessary information‟s like botanical name, family of plant species, local name, hindi name, habit, plant part used and their medicinal uses are given. In the present study the most dominating families of the area are Moraceae with 6 species. The collected medicinal plants showed a different life forms (habit) - herb, shrub,
tree and climber. Among the different parts of the plant, leaves are the most widely used part of the plant for the medicinal values. Medicinal plants which are used by the local inhabitants to cure various human diseases. As the rural folk and old aged peoples have long been using plants for their various human ailments, but this information related traditional medicinal uses of plants are not well documented. There is an urgent need for documenting these folklores and traditional knowledge in some form before such valuable knowledge becomes inaccessible and extinct.
Keywords: Ethnobotany, Haryana, Medicinal plants, Diseases.
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