Traditional medical practice on Primitive Nooka Dora tribes, Alluri Sitaramaraju District, Andhra Pradesh
Department of Botany, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam-530003, A.P, India.
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World Journal of Biology Pharmacy and Health Sciences, 2024, 18(01), 363–367,
Article DOI: 10.30574/wjbphs.2024.18.1.0216
Publication history:
Received on 10 March 2024; revised on 20 April 2024; accepted on 23 April 2024
Abstract:
An ethnomedicinal survey was carried out in HukumpetaMandal, AlluriSitaramaraju District, Andhra Pradesh, India. For documentation of important ethnomedicinal plants and information from local community about their medicinal uses. The traditional knowledge of primitive Nooka Dora tribe traditional uses was collected through questionnaire and personal interviews during field trips. The identification and nomenclature of the listed plants were based on the Flora of Andhra Pradesh. A total of 49 plants species belong to 47 genera and 37 families were identified by taxonomic description and locally by ethnomedicinal knowledge of people existing in the region.
Keywords:
Traditional medicinal practice; Nooka Dora primitive tribal communities; Hukumpeta Mandal; AlluriSitaramaraju district
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