An ethno-botanical survey of medicinal plants in Moolaikaraipatti, Tirunelveli District, Tamilnadu, India
International Journal of Development Research
An ethno-botanical survey of medicinal plants in Moolaikaraipatti, Tirunelveli District, Tamilnadu, India
Received 06th September, 2018; Received in revised form 03rd October, 2018; Accepted 19th November, 2018; Published online 26th December, 2018
Copyright © 2018, Pholtan Rajeev et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
An Ethno-botanical survey was carried out to record information on medicinal plants from native healers and public from Moolaikaraipatti. This study was field visit and identified existent medicinal plants used for treating diseases in various ways. Main informers are area common public and their data confirmed by traditional practitioner with direct interview conversation. This survey identified and recorded 249 plants from 27 families, used to treating diseases in Moolaikaraipatti area. The Fabaceae family plants were most represented while medicinal used collections. Most of medicinal plants are harvested from wild and bare area commonly (52.7%). A most of the number of the plants species are used for treating different diseases in Moolaikaraipatti area, Tirunelveli district. The conventional ethno medicinal plants were mostly used for fever, skin diseases, poisonous bite, wounds, and rheumatism.
