DIVERSITY AND PROSPERITY OF MEDICINAL PLANTS FROM TELANGANA STATE, INDIA
D. Nagaraju*
ABSTRACT
India is one of the mega biodiversity countries, having rich biodiversity, most of the plants using as medicines and others. Medicinal Plants utilization is known since times immemorial. These have been one of the important sources of medicines ever since the dawn of human civilization. The utility of medicinal plants played important role in Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha and also in modern medicine. 80% of world population utilizes drugs, derived from medicinal plants for their health security. The medicinal plants have various methods of preparation and application for different types of ailments and they have various preparation forms like crude, decoction, powder, and crushed and homogenized in water. Our Indian people have tremendous passion for medicinal plants and use of them for wide range of health related applications, especially our Telangana state have good topographic and geographical conditions to be a rich potential and diversity of Medicinal plants. In this study we encountered 240 medicinal Plants and their medicinal usages, therefore the documenting the medicinal plants and associated indigenous knowledge can be used as a basis for developing management plans for conservation and sustainable use of medicinal plants in the area.
Keywords: Diversity, Docomenting, Human, India, Medicinal Plants, Utilization.
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