INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE OF THE MEDICINAL PLANT RESOURCESOF COROMANDEL COAST FORESTS OF PENINSULAR INDIA INMODERN PERIOD

摘要

The project was taken up to make an assessment of the plant resources which are depleting globally at an alarming rate including a number of economically and medicinally important plants. The project was concerned with medicinal plant resources and indigenous knowledge on them from the tropical dry evergreen forests on the southern Coromandel coasts of India in the modern period. The main aim of the study was to (i) document the history of medicinal plants, use pattern, species documentation, parts used and purpose of medicinal plat resource use and (ii) investigate the indigenous knowledge system pertaining to medicinal plant resources in the Coromandel coast forests of peninsular India in order to preserve biological and cultural diversity with sustainable development/sustainable resources use pattern pertaining to the modern period.