survey of medicinal plants as regards to their uses by the tribal practitioners in the Chittagong hill tracts of Bangladesh to check various diseases

ABSTRACT

More than seven hundred of medicinal plants have so far been enlisted as growing in Bangladesh [Yousuf et. al., 2009]. This number of indigenous medicinal plants is increasing day by day in this country. Most of these plants are used by the rural practitioner, especially tribal practitioner of Chittagong Hill Tracts [CHTs] as an efficacious remedy to treat various ailments. The present study reveals that the tribal practitioners of Chittagong Hill Tracts have applied 138 plant species belonging to 54 families for the treatment of many complicated diseases such as Jaundice, Rheumatism, Skin diseases, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Asthma, Malaria, Stomach pain, Gonorrhoea, Diabetes, Urinary diseases, Liver diseases, Pneumonia, Menstrual diseases, Heart diseases, etc. Short diagnostic description of these plants is described