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Some Unreported Medicinal Uses of Plants from the Tribal Area of Southern Rajasthan


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1 Laboratory of Ethnobotany and Agrostology, Department of Botany College of Science, M. L. Sukhadia University, Udaipur-313001, India
 

Hitherto unreported folk medicinal uses of 41 species of plants belonging to 29 families used by the tribals of Southern Rajasthan have been dealt in this paper. Some plants with important ethnomedicinal new uses are Aegle marmelos, Leucas aspera and Pongamia pinnata in migraine; Acacia leucophloea as contraceptive; Borassus flabelifer, Grewia orientalis and Ziziphus xylopyra in developing complete sterility in female while Cocculus villosus in male; Citrus medica in kidney stone; Crinum asiaticum in breast cancer; Cryptolepis buchanani in piles; Gardenia turgida and Luffa acutangula as antidote in animal bite; lchnocarpus frutescens in swollen gums; Lannea coromandelica in earache; Nyctanthes arbortristis in obesity; Euphorbia acaulis, Grewia dumine, Xeromphis spinosa in skin diseases and Clitoris ternatea in colic. The plant part used and mode of administration in also given.
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S. S. Katewa
Laboratory of Ethnobotany and Agrostology, Department of Botany College of Science, M. L. Sukhadia University, Udaipur-313001, India
Anita Jain
Laboratory of Ethnobotany and Agrostology, Department of Botany College of Science, M. L. Sukhadia University, Udaipur-313001, India
B. L. Chaudhary
Laboratory of Ethnobotany and Agrostology, Department of Botany College of Science, M. L. Sukhadia University, Udaipur-313001, India
Praveen Galav
Laboratory of Ethnobotany and Agrostology, Department of Botany College of Science, M. L. Sukhadia University, Udaipur-313001, India

Abstract


Hitherto unreported folk medicinal uses of 41 species of plants belonging to 29 families used by the tribals of Southern Rajasthan have been dealt in this paper. Some plants with important ethnomedicinal new uses are Aegle marmelos, Leucas aspera and Pongamia pinnata in migraine; Acacia leucophloea as contraceptive; Borassus flabelifer, Grewia orientalis and Ziziphus xylopyra in developing complete sterility in female while Cocculus villosus in male; Citrus medica in kidney stone; Crinum asiaticum in breast cancer; Cryptolepis buchanani in piles; Gardenia turgida and Luffa acutangula as antidote in animal bite; lchnocarpus frutescens in swollen gums; Lannea coromandelica in earache; Nyctanthes arbortristis in obesity; Euphorbia acaulis, Grewia dumine, Xeromphis spinosa in skin diseases and Clitoris ternatea in colic. The plant part used and mode of administration in also given.