Ethno medicinal importance of indigenous plants for the use of Leucoderma and other skin diseases of the Mandar Block, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India

Jyoti Kumari & Mithilesh Kumar Pandey*
P.G. Department of Botany, Maharaja College, Ara (Bhojpur), Bihar.
Received : 12th May, 2015; Revised : 17th July, 2015

Abstract : Often Ethnobotanical inventories are made by conducting interviews with the tribal people; formal surveys in the field and collection and identification of plant specimen used. This article deals with 21 plants species used in treatment of Leucoderma and other skin diseases by the ethnic population of Mandar Block. Medical Ethnobotany deals with the nature and application of plants used within traditional medical systems and it involves the identification of plants used in traditional remedies.

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