A Survey on Medicinal Plant Knowledge among the Indigenous Communities (Tamilians) in the Delta Regions of Tamil Nadu, India

IF 1.2 Q4 PHARMACOLOGY & PHARMACY

Journal of Herbs, Spices and Medicinal Plants Pub Date : 2021-08-17 DOI:10.1080/10496475.2021.1962474

P. Srinivasan, V. Subramaniyan, Thilaka Gk, Karthikeyan Krishnasamy, Sureshkumar Jeyalachagan, Manokar Palani

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ABSTRACT The local people of the delta region of Thanjavur (Tamil Nadu, India) were surveyed to explore the therapeutic medicinal plants used in folk medicine in the study area. The people belonged to four agricultural rural villages in the study region. The medicinal plants data was validated using frequency citation (FC), relative frequency of citation (RFC), use value (UV), relative importance (RI), cultural importance index (CIi), informant agreement ratio (IAR), informant consensus factor (IFC) and fidelity level (FL). The survey identified 77 indigenous plants from 43 families, of which Fabaceae was used 12% followed by Rutaceae (6%), Lamiaceae and Cucurbitaceae (each 5%), Solanaceae (5%) and others (63%), used for treating 20 ailment categories. Among plant parts, leaves were the most used in the form of powder. Acorus calamus, Bauhinia racemosa, Borassus flabellifer, Myristica fragrans, Sphaeranthus indicus, Withania somnifera and Cissampelos andromorpha warrant further pharmacological investigations.

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印度泰米尔纳德邦三角洲地区土著社区（泰米尔人）药用植物知识调查

摘要对印度泰米尔纳德邦Thanjavur三角洲地区的当地居民进行了调查，以探索该地区民间医学中使用的治疗性药用植物。这些人属于研究地区的四个农业农村。采用被引频次(FC)、相对被引频次(RFC)、使用价值(UV)、相对重要性(RI)、文化重要性指数(CIi)、知情者同意率(IAR)、知情者共识因子(IFC)和保真度(FL)对药用植物数据进行验证。调查共鉴定出43科77种本土植物，其中豆科占12%，其次是芜菁科(6%)、兰科和葫芦科(各占5%)、茄科(5%)和其他(63%)，用于治疗20种疾病。在植物部位中，叶子以粉末的形式使用最多。菖蒲、总状紫荆花、菖蒲、香肉豆蔻、凤仙花、牡丹和山茱萸值得进一步的药理研究。

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Journal of Herbs, Spices and Medicinal Plants Medicine-Complementary and Alternative Medicine

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