Traditional folk medicine used by the tribal practitioners of Chittagong hill tracts of Bangladesh to alleviate rheumatism

ABSTRACT

The present investigation was undertaken on the use of indigenous medicinal plants by the tribal practitioners [Kabiraj] inhabiting the hilly districts called Chittagong Hill Tracts [CHTs] of Bangladesh to treat rheumatism. A large number of people in this area depend on the medicinal plant resources because of their poverty and/or their tradition. Study reveals that the tribal medicine man used eighty-six species of medicinal plants distributed into forty-five families for the treatment of rheumatic disorders. All the species were collected from different places of Hill Tracts districts and identified by the authors with the help of Bangladesh National Herbarium