Authors : Y.B.Gedam and S.P.Pandav
Page Nos : 28-35
Description :
Ethno medicine is the medical beliefs and practices of indigenous cultures from
earliest time .The plant are used by the traditional healers of tribes Madia, Pardhan
,Kolam and Gond in Chadrapur district. Chandrapur district falls in eastern
Maharashtra and lies between North latitude 18°-41to20°-51 and East Longitude
78°-48.Primary survey of medicinal plants used by tribals of Chandrapur district
has been made. The plants were collected and photographed with their local names
and botanical names. This paper consist of list of medicinal plant used by the
tribal mostly the information’s from tribal about economical products such as
vegetables, fruits fodder, fuel, fibers ,gums, timber and for smoking ,hunting and
some religious ceremonies. Living with them we tried to report some unknown
medicinal ailment of the plants which are used for asthma, cough, cold, fever
stomach problem, snake, scorpion and insect bites and common skin diseases.