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An Ethnopharmacology Study of District Chamba, Himachal Pradesh

Abstract

An ethnopharmacology study in tribal, rural and sub rural pockets in Chamba (Dalhousie, Kalatop, Kundi, Darkundi, and Tissa) district has been carried out. Information gathered through repeated visits to various sites, participant observations, structured, semi-structured and unstructured questionnaires, focus group discussion and personal contacts with various people of local community, Gaddis and Gujjars. During the survey, 304 plant taxon belonging to 92 genera and 70 families were mentioned by them having economic importance, of which only the ethnopharmacological value of them were highlighted Of the plants 86 species were used only as medicine. Different plant parts of different spp. are used as medicine for treating various diseases. Nowadays it is a well-established f act that herbal remedies are more suitable tohuman body; an isolated chemical medicines (Natural herbs and natural extracts, 2009). India is a country of different traditional culture and tribes and follow different customs and systems of medicine. It is generally established that over 6000 plants in India are used for traditional, folk and herbal medicines, representing about 75% of the medicinal needs of the third world countries. Medicinal plants have been playing an important role in the development of human culture. As a source of medicine, medicinal plants have always been at forefront virtually all cultures of civilization. Chandra R

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