Knowledge of Medicinal Plants and Their Benefits to the Niyamagiri Hill Tribe Community, Kalahandi District, Odisha, India | Chapter 9 | Contemporary Research and Perspectives in Biological Science Vol. 5

Aim: The current study was prepared to collect ethnomedicinal data from tribal peoples in the Niyamagiri hill region of Kalahandi district, Odisha, India. The tribals of this region have been using medicinal plants to treat various kinds of diseases since time immemorial.

Background: Traditional medicine implementations involve therapeutic methods using predictable medicines that have been used orally through generations. In view of indigenous segregation over several years, these apply to different groups and communities, which have continued to date.

Methods: To the study records the information on the medicinal uses of plants by leading healers by conducting interviews and recording comprehensive knowledge about the medicinal properties of different plants with the snowball technique and sampling method. Plants were recognized by the local practitioner also known as Kabi Raja or Vaidya, on the forest floor and were classified botanically.

Results: The present study recorded the use of different parts of 150 plant species belonging to 131 genera of 78, unlike flowering plant families, against various diseases, with special reference to diarrhoea, dysentery, cold, cough, piles and fever. The practitioners use these plants to treat kinds of ailments like asthma, skin diseases, piles, constipation, diabetes, fever, cough, toothache, wound healing, headache, infertility in women, mouth ulcers, stomach disorders, indigestion, insect bites, ring worms, thirst, eczema, dysentery and diarrhoea. Since there are no contemporary medical facilities nearby, all of these medicinal plants are employed as sources of healing. Each of these plants has a unique lclimate that promotes growth, especially in the district's hilly woodland. The current record of ethnomedicinal data specified that the backward and tribal local people commonly used plants for the treatment of diarrhoea and dysentery are A. salvifolium, A. spinosus, A. paeoniifolius, A. paniculata, B. acutangula, B. purpuria, B. malabarium, B. pinnatum, B. lanzan, C. arborea, C. fistula. For cold and cough the plants are A. indica, A. sativum, A. galanagal, A. mexicana, A. integrifolia, B. acutangula, B.campestris, B. pinnatum.

Conclusion: The use of herbal therapies, their advantages, side effects and other details almost have the same traditional values as the previous workers with a little difference. The efficiency   and   safety of   all   the   listed ethnomedicinal plants need to be evaluated for phytochemical studies.

 

Author (s) Details

Sangeeta Das
Department of Botany, Berhampur University, Berhampur, Odisha, 760007, India.

 

Shaikh Ameeruddin
Department of Botany, Berhampur University, Berhampur, Odisha, 760007, India.

 

Sivaprasad Das
Department of Chemistry, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, 751004, India

 

A. Leelaveni
Department of Botany, Berhampur University, Berhampur, Odisha, 760007, India.

 

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The Effect of Aqueous Extract of Sutherlandia frutescens (Unwele) and Benzathine Penicillin on Enterococcus faecalis| Chapter 6 | Challenges and Advances in Pharmaceutical Research Vol. 10

 Therapeutic plants have existed used, for many age, traditionally for situation of infections. The mounting tumor of antimicrobial resistance, now, has led to chemists exploring their decontaminating activity to form an essential part of alternative situations.Aim: To assess the operation of the combination of the liquid extracts of Sutherlandia frutescens (S. frutescens) and benzathine penicillin on Enterococcus faecalis (E faecalis) utilizing disc spread and microdilution methods.Method: Leaf extract, of S. frutescens, were prepared in accordance with modified form of the German Homeopathic Pharmacopoea. The antibacterial endeavor of the combination, of the plant extract and benzathine medicine, was evaluated utilizing the disk diffusion test. The consolidation, of plant extract and penicillin, was in the percentage of 1:1. Results showing some form of inhibition were rooted, by the minimum inhibitory concentration assays, utilizing the agar dilution form. Bacterial sensitivity experiment was performed similarly modified Kirby-Bauer antimicrobial sympathy test. The combination and penicillin were all proven against E faecalis and, the results were compared to decide the synergistic or opposing activity.Results: Benzathine medicine inhibited the microorganisms producing a zone of hindrance which was effective 27 mm. The zones of inhibition for the alliance of extract and benzathine penicillin, against E faecalis, was 21 mm. The minimum inhibitory aggregation, of the combination, was 0% growth for 1 in 2 to 1 in 16 dilutions. This plainly indicates an opposing activity.Conclusion: The potential for evolving antimicrobials from plants, in vitro, supports a platform for phytomedicine and pharmacological studies.

Author(s) Details:

N. W. Nsele,
Department of Biomedical Sciences, Mangosuthu University of Technology, Umlazi, South Africa.

S. Moodley,
Department of Biomedical Sciences, Mangosuthu University of Technology, Umlazi, South Africa.

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