Volume: 43 Issue: 4
Ethnomedicinal plants used in the treatment of headache by the Bhil tribe of Ratlam district, Madhya Pradesh
Year: 2021, Page: 172-174, Doi: https://doi.org/10.62029/jmaps.v43i4.Jadhav2
Received: June 9, 2021 Accepted: Oct. 15, 2021 Published: Dec. 31, 2021
The present paper gives information on ethnomedicinal plants used by the Bhil tribe of Ratlam District (Madhya Pradesh) for curing headaches. It deals with 15 plant species under 13 genera belonging to 12 families. The botanical names followed by local names, family, Voucher Specimen Number, method of preparation of the drug, and mode of use of the plants are mentioned.
Keywords: Bhil, Ethnomedicinal plants, Headache, Ratlam district
Jadhav, D. (2016). Traditional seed therapy among Bhils of Ratlam district of Madhya Pradesh, India. Ethnobotany, 28, 77–81.
Jadhav, D. (2017). The origin and significance of vernacular plant names in Ratlam district of Madhya Pradesh, India. Phytotaxonomy, 17, 132–135.
Jadhav, D. (2018). Medicinally important weed plants of Ratlam district, Madhya Pradesh, India. Journal of Tropical Forestry, 34, 72–84.
Jadhav, D. (2019). Traditional therapeutic usage of wildflowers by Bhils of Ratlam district, Madhya Pradesh, India. Journal of Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Sciences, 41, 64–67.
Jain, S. K. (Ed.). (1981). Glimpses of Indian ethnobotany. Oxford & IBH Publishing.
Jain, S. K. (1991). Dictionary of Indian folk medicine and ethnobotany. Deep Publications.
Jain, S. K. (2002). Bibliography of Indian ethnobotany. Scientific Publishers.
Jain, S. K. (Ed.). (2004). A manual of ethnobotany. Scientific Publishers.
Mudgal, V., Khanna, K. K., & Hajra, P. K. (1997). Flora of Madhya Pradesh (Vol. 2). Botanical Survey of India.
Singh, N. P., Khanna, K. K., Mudgal, V., & Dixit, R. D. (2001). Flora of Madhya Pradesh (Vol. 3). Botanical Survey of India.
Verma, D. M., Balakrishan, N. P., & Dixit, R. P. (1993). Flora of Madhya Pradesh (Vol. 1). Botanical Survey of India.
Waske, S., Patel, S., & Thakur, M. (2020). An ethnomedicinal study of Ghatkohka buffer range in Pench Tiger Reserve, Seoni (M.P.). Journal of Tropical Forestry, 36, 31–42.
© CSIR-Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Lucknow-226015
Jadhav, D. (2021). Ethnomedicinal plants used in the treatment of headache by the Bhil tribe of Ratlam district, Madhya Pradesh. Journal of Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Sciences, 43(4), 172–174.
