Volume: 41 Issue: 2
Traditional therapeutic usage of wild flowers by Bhils of Ratlam district, Madhya Pradesh, India
Year: 2019, Page: 64-67, Doi: https://doi.org/10.62029/jmaps.v41i2.Jadhav
Received: Feb. 15, 2019 Accepted: May 26, 2019 Published: Dec. 31, 2019
Plants used by tribals in flower therapy have been enumerated. Flower therapy is an old practice among the tribals in Ratlam district of Madhya Pradesh. In this therapy locally available plant species are used for the prevention and cure of the diseases. The tribals were contacted and the information on 18 species belonging to 16 genera under 14 families from different pockets is documented here.
Keywords: Bhil tribe, Ethnomedicinal plants, Flower therapy, Ratlam
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Dinesh Jadhav. 2019. Traditional therapeutic usage of wild flowers by Bhils of Ratlam district, Madhya Pradesh, India. J Med Aromat Plant Sci 41: 64-67.
