Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Ravikumar Kaliamoorthy, Somashekhar Byadarahalli Srikantiah, Ved Devendra Kumar, Zaman Roohi, Rajalakshmi Gopalakrishnan, Nair S N Venugopalan, Kukkupuni Subrahmanya Kumar
Foundation for Revitalisation of Local Health Tradition's- Institute for Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology (FRLHT-TDU), #74/2, Jaraka Bande Kaval, Post Attur, Via Yelahanka, Bangalore, 560064, India; Manipal University, Manipal, India.
Foundation for Revitalisation of Local Health Tradition's- Institute for Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology (FRLHT-TDU), #74/2, Jaraka Bande Kaval, Post Attur, Via Yelahanka, Bangalore, 560064, India.
J Ayurveda Integr Med. 2018 Apr-Jun;9(2):104-112. doi: 10.1016/j.jaim.2017.05.008. Epub 2017 Dec 8.
The Valaiyār (Moopanar) communities of Tamil Nadu are traditionally known for catching rats and snakes from the agricultural fields. Prior to independence, some of these families have faced socio-economic changes and chosen to become herbalists in Madurai city. They are mainly engaged in collecting and dispensing fresh and dried plant drugs in its 'natural form' at Tiḷagar tīḍal market of Madurai city. Their business is unique, because customers receive 'prescriptions' and 'plant drugs', unlike the conventional dispensaries. Their world view is: 'to cure the ailing in natural way'.
To document plant drugs collected and dispensed by some of the families belonging to Valaiyār (Moopanar) community in the Tiḷagar tīḍal market.
Ethnobotanical tools were employed to document various aspects of the practices including resource and knowledge base, medicinal uses, dosage, collection of herbarium and raw drug specimens. Integrative approach was adapted to document the trade dynamics.
During the study, 133 medicinal plant species belonging to 50 families were documented. 71% of species were sourced from wild and non-forest areas. 272 simple and compound remedies were recorded.
Local markets/shanties like these are 'Traditional Medicine (TM) health care services at door step'. They cater to local health care needs along with conventional system in a synergistic manner and provide adaptable, local solutions using local resources.
泰米尔纳德邦的瓦莱亚尔（莫奥帕纳尔）社区传统上以在农田捕捉老鼠和蛇而闻名。在独立之前，这些家庭中的一些面临社会经济变革，并选择在马杜赖市成为草药医生。他们主要在马杜赖市的蒂拉加尔蒂达尔市场以“天然形式”收集和分发新鲜和干燥的植物药。他们的生意很独特，因为与传统药房不同，顾客在这里会收到“处方”和“植物药”。他们的世界观是：“以自然方式治愈病人”。
记录在蒂拉加尔蒂达尔市场中，属于瓦莱亚尔（莫奥帕纳尔）社区的一些家庭所收集和分发的植物药。
采用民族植物学方法记录实践的各个方面，包括资源和知识库、药用用途、剂量、标本馆标本和生药标本的采集。采用综合方法记录贸易动态。
在研究期间，记录了属于50个科的133种药用植物。71%的物种来自野生和非森林地区。记录了272种简单和复合疗法。
像这样的当地市场/棚屋是“家门口的传统医学（TM）医疗服务”。它们以协同方式满足当地医疗需求，与传统医疗体系并存，并利用当地资源提供适应性强的本地解决方案。
