Documentary Evidences of Selected Indigenous Medicinal Plants Used By the Tribal Peoples of Savarikkadu

Abstract

Indigenous plants are a treasure of any region for ailment treatment. Indigenous use of medicinal plants all over the world precedes the origin of modern medicine in the healthcare system. Medicinal plants are used with the intention of maintaining health, to be administered for a specific condition, or both, whether in modern medicine or in traditional medicine. Tribal peoples are the one who depend on nature throughout their life. Savarikkadu is the place which is enriched with more plants. And those people depend on plants for all their basic health diseases. The present work is initiated to explore some rare indigenous medicinal plants in Savarikkadu from the tribal people and a total of “Forty eight” plant species included in “Twenty seven” families were found. The Ethno botanical survey on Indigenous Medicinal Plants is conducted between Septembers to December 2023. More information about the traditional knowledge was collected randomly from the tribal peoples of the Savarikkadu. The field visit is taken many times to collect information from the tribal people regarding traditional and indigenous knowledge. A few tribal people were interviewed in this survey. Traditional medicines were still used by the peoples from the traditional medicinal experience of practicing individuals in the Savarikkadu. They use these plants for the treatment of various diseases listed in the table. And these plants were arranged according to the Bentham and Hookers system of Classification and API Taxonomy. These plants were also pollution free and easily available for the needs. Those plants are arranged with their botanical name, vernacular name, family, habit, parts used, preparation, used as and medicinal uses. And further study is going on with these plants.