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Traditional Knowledge of the Women’s of Kaibarta Community of Assam about the application of Phyto-remedies in certain Common Childhood Diseases

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Author Affiliations

  • 1Department of Botany, Bahona College, Jorhat-785101, Assam, INDIA
  • 2 Department of Zoology, J.B. College, Jorhat-785001, Assam, INDIA

Int. Res. J. Biological Sci., Volume 3, Issue (1), Pages 57-63, January,10 (2014)

Abstract

In the present work all total 34 medicinal plants belonging to 24 families used by the women’s of Kaibarta community of Assam, India in various Childhood diseases were recorded and documented. 19 of the recorded plants were herbs, 6 were shrubs, 8 trees and 1 climber. Out of 34 plants studied, parts of 7 (20.6%) plants are found to be used in Jaundice, 6 (17.6%) are in different skin diseases, 5 (14.7%) each in cough and dysentery, 4 (11.7%) each in worm infection and diarrhoea, 3 (8.82%) each in piles, asthma and measles, 2 (5.9%) each in whooping cough, fever, indigestion, and in epistaxis, 1 (2.94%) each of lack of appetite and earinfection. Biological activities of the recorded plants were also reported from available literature and found a positive correlation between their traditional knowledge and biological activities which validates the ITK of the women’s of Kaibarta community about the application of phytoremedy in Childhood diseases.

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