European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

ETHNO-BOTANICAL IDENTIFICATION OF SOME IMPORTANT MEDICINAL PLANTS OF KUNJAPURI HILL, UTTARAKHAND

Chityanand Tiwari*, Suresh Chaubey, R. C. Tiwari and Rakhi Nautiyal

ABSTRACT

Medicinal plants play important role in healthcare practices among the tribal and rural people. These Triabals and rural people have wonderful about the effective treatment of many health problems only by using these plants. This knowledge acquired by the tribal‟s and rural people usually passed from generation to generation only in verbal form. So an effort was carried out to asses‟ ethno botanical identification of some plants species used by local people of Kunjapuri Hill in district Tehri Garhwal of Uttarakhand. The information presented in this paper was gathered by frequent field visit in the forest and adjoining villages. The information collected on the basis of interview by local people found on kunjapuri Temple. The survey start from Novmber 2016 and end March 2019. A total 55 plants were collected during the field visit out of which 44 plants species under 34 family were reported ethno medicinal by the local dwellers and used by them for different diseases. The plants used for different purposes are listed with scientific name, family, local name, ethno medicinal use. It can be concluded from this study that local dwellers of kunjapuri hill inherit a rich traditional knowledge about the medicinal use of plants and documentation of this knowledge will open the door for new research.

Keywords: Ethno-medicinal plants, Rural people, Local dwellers, Kunjapuri Hill.