Journal of Bioanalysis & Biomedicine

Department of Habitat Ecology, Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

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• Research Article   
  Ethnobotanical Documentation of Harike Wildlife Sanctuary (Ramsar Site), Punjab: A Case Study
  Author(s): Sameer Gautam* and B.S. Adhikari
  
  The present study deals with the systematic documentation of traditional knowledge on medicinal plants used by local people. The data was collected with the help of a semi-structured questionnaire following the snowball sampling method. People with some knowledge of medicinal plants were targeted for gathering information. A total of 85 species from 79 genera and 51 families were mentioned by informants for the treatment of 40 types of health ailments. For the use of plants as medicine, 110 informants from 6 villages were interviewed. Leaves (25% species) are the most used plant part and decoction (19 species) is the most used method for preparation of the drug, while the most frequent administration of the drug is oral (85% species) in the present study. The ethnobotanical indices like use value, relative importance and Fidelity Level (FL) of each species have been derived from the p.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/1948-593X.2022.14.35

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