Important folk-medicinal plants and traditional knowledge of tribals of aurangabad and nasik forest divisions of maharashtra [India]

ABSTRACT

The aim of this study is to analyse the pharmacognosy of the folk medicines and assessment of their efficacy in various diseases. The present study deals with the relation of folk-medicinal plants and traditional knowledge of tribals for the welfare of mankind and medicare. During the medico-ethno-botanical survey 2000 plant specimens of medicinal importance comprising 400 taxa, were collected from various survey sites e.g. Kuldabad. Ajanta, Forest and Buldana [Aurangabad]; Harsul, Trimbak and Jarahar [Nasik forest division]. The present survey sites lie between 73.5 ° to 75.6 ° E longitude and 19.6 ° to 20.5 ° N latitude. Beside 100 folk medicinal claims were also collected from the tribals at various survey sites for the treatment of a number of disease e.g. rabies, leucoderma, jaundice, leucorrhoea, diarrhea, contraception, removing wrinkles from the face, excess menstrual flow and improving vision of the eyes. The important folk medicinal plants are mentioned in the paper