Conservation of folk healing practices and commercial medicinal plants with special reference to Nagaland

摘要

Nagaland is one of the states of North Eastern India which is bordered in the East by Myanmar, Assam in the West Manipur in the South and Arunachal Pradesh and partly Assam in the North. It lies between 93.5 to 94.70?N longitude and 25.5 to 27.5 E latitude. The state as a whole is a hilly tract and occupying?an area of 16,527 sq. km. The state consists of seven districts and 16 tribes and their sub-tribes.The state?is rich in biodiversity as a source of medicinal plants as well as, the traditional method of healing practices and health management. The present paper deals with the details of studies on conservation of traditional healing practices of tribal people of Nagaland. Traditional practices in Nagaland are practiced by some of the herbalists who use the practice of treatment through single drug or in compound formulation. Due to modernization of the society these practices are gradually getting reduced which needs to be conserved through promoting of the traditional healers by taking them in practice through scientific organizations after passing through various scientific validation practices.