ROLE OF INDIGENOUS HERBAL MEDICINES IN LIFE OF TRIBAL PEOPLE IN SATPUDA MOUNTAIN

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Abstract

According to the survey taken in Nandurbar, Dhule and Jalgaon district near the Satpura mountain of Maharashtra of India in the year of 2020 – 2021 various medicinal plants are present there. The tribal people like Bhil, Pawara and Pardhi are used these plants for different diseases. The use of these herbal medicines has important role in the modern medicinal stream like homeopathy, ayurveda, unani etc. The use of herbal medicine is not only cost effective but also safe and almost free from serious side effects. A total 70 medicinal plants species distributed in 37 families in these districts. These medicinal plants are use for headache, earache, stomachache, antioxidants enriched plants, liver protective, renal protective, antidiabetic, abortificients, wound infections, skin infections, fever, cough, diarrhoea, eye infections, general weakness, blood purifier medicinal plants, immune-modualtory properties of medicinal plants etc. Nowadays we are facing the problem of pandemic disease like ‘CORONA’, but some immunity boosting medicinal plants are used to increase the immunity in order to fight against various microbes.

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