Sivasankari Balayogan, Pitchaimani Subburaj, Anandharaj Marimuthu
Department of Biology, Gandhigram Rural Institute-Deemed University, Gandhigram-624302, Dindigul district, Tamilnadu, India.
Asian Pac J Trop Biomed. 2013 Dec;3(12):975-9. doi: 10.1016/S2221-1691(13)60188-4.
To record the medicinal plants of Uthapuram Village, Madurai district, Tamilnadu, South India for the first time and the usage of these medicinal plants to remediate the diseases among the peoples.
Explorative field trips were made to the village for about twelve months from April 2012 to May 2013 to survey the medicinal plants and collect the information from the villagers.
From this study 52 species of valuable medicinal plants belonging to 36 families were recorded and their ethnomedicinal values were collected from the village peoples.
This study focuses the importance, utilization and conservation of the medicinal plants among the people.
首次记录印度南部泰米尔纳德邦马杜赖区乌塔普拉姆村的药用植物，以及这些药用植物在治疗村民疾病方面的用途。
从2012年4月至2013年5月，对该村进行了约十二个月的探索性实地考察，以调查药用植物并从村民那里收集信息。
通过这项研究，记录了属于36个科的52种珍贵药用植物，并从村民那里收集了它们的民族药用价值。
本研究强调了药用植物在人们中的重要性、利用和保护。
