Volume: 43 Issue: 2
Cocculus hirsutus (L.) Diels. (Menispermaceae): An effective ethnomedicine for the treatment of leucorrhoea
Year: 2021, Page: 83-86, Doi: https://doi.org/10.62029/jmaps.v43i2.Jadhav2
Received: Sept. 28, 2020 Accepted: May 22, 2021 Published: July 1, 2021
Information about an interesting and hither to unknown ethnomedicinal use of Cocculus hirsutus (L.) Diels. (Menispermaceae) recorded from the tribal inhabited localities of Ratlam district (M. P.) has been dealt with in this communication. It has been observed that the plant species is acting like a wonder drug against leucorrhoea. This is interesting to ethno-medico-botany.
Keywords: Cocculus hirsutus, Ethnomedicine, Leucorrhoea, Madhya Pradesh, Ratlam
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Dinesh Jadhav. 2021. Cocculus hirsutus (L.) Diels. (Menispermaceae): An effective ethnomedicine for the treatment of leucorrhoea. J Med Aromat Plant Sci 43: 83-86.
