PLANTS USED IN WOMEN HEALTH CARE PROBLEMS
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Botany, Government Autonomous Holkar Science College, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
- 2. Department of Botany, Sri Jagadguru Renukacharya College of Science, Arts and Commerce, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- 3. Department of Botany, Raidighi College, West Bengal, India
- 4. LCIT School of Pharmacy, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India
- 5. Biodiversity & Conservation Lab., Ambika Prasad Research Foundation, Odisha, India
Description
Healthy women represent healthy nation. Therefore, present study was investigated to document the indigenous knowledge on medicinal plants used in women health care problems by the indigenous communities. Data was collected through direct interactions with local communities of Sundargarh district, Odisha. 41 medicinal plants enumerated along with botanical name, part (s) used and uses. The most commonly used plant part was root (36%) followed by leaf (16%), fruit (10%), flower (10%), seed (8%), stem (6%), bark (6%), whole plant (6%) and aerial part (2%). Majority of the plants were trees (28%) followed by shrubs, herbs (26%) and climbers (20%). The present study highlights the importance of locally available plants in women health care problems.