Traditional Medicinal Plants used by the Inhabitants of Foot Hills of Siwalik Himalaya of District Saharanpur

摘要

This paper provides information on 20 medicinal plants belonging to 16 families used by the inhabitants of foot hills of Siwalik Himalaya in district Saharanpur. Most of the people of this area live below poverty line, They use large number of plants for treatment of various health disorders. Some of the ethnobotanically important plants found in this area are Achyranthes, Adhatoda, Barleria, Calotropis, Chenopodium, Cinnamomum, Madhuca, Nyclanthes, Tinospora, Tylophora etc.Medicinal plants of this area have been studied earlier by some workers like Bhargava (1982), Nagiyan et al. (2003) etc., but ethnobotany of this area is not much touched. This study is to emphasize the importance of ethnobotanical research and to document the traditional knowledge of medicinal plants of this area.