Some medicinal plants used by the rural practitioners [kabiraj or boiddya] of Bangladesh for treating menstrual troubles and leucorrhoea

ABSTRACT

The traditional practitioners of Bangladesh use a huge number of medicinally active plants for the treatment of various diseases including female diseases. The present study reveals that, the traditional medicine men used 60 plant species belonging to 39 families to cure female diseases like menstrual troubles and leucorrhoea. These plants are being used by them from time immemorial. In this paper short diagnostic description of these plants, Botanical name, Family name, Tribal name [Chakma [C], Marma [M], Murong [Mu], Mogh [Mo], Santal [S] Tanchangya [T], Garo [G]], Bengali name [B], English name [E], type of the plants, availability, mode of preparation, uses and doses are described