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Journal of Biological Sciences

Year: 2014 | Volume: 14 | Issue: 3 | Page No.: 154-168
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Mohan G. Kalaskar

Sanjay J. Surana

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Ethnomedicinal Plants used Against Liver Diseases among the Tribes of India: Review

Mohan G. Kalaskar and Sanjay J. Surana
India is known as the botanical garden of the world, has a great history of medicinal plant utilization, traditional plant-based medicines have always been used to treat liver diseases and jaundice. In the present work, we focused on medicinal plants used to treat jaundice and liver diseases. About 124 plant species belonging to about 53 families were found to be used against jaundice or hepatitis by the tribal’s and traditional healers. The most important plant species are Boerhaavia diffusa and otherspecies, Centella asiatica, Eclipta alba, Gentiana tubiflora and other species, Lawsonia intermis, Luffa acutangula var. Amara, Polygonum tortuosum, Portulaca oleracea, Phyllanthusamarus and other species, Solanum nigrum, Ricinus communis, Tephrosia purpurea, Thespesia lampas and Termenalia species etc. The ethnomedicinal data are compiled as botanical name, family, local name, native tribe distribution, part of plant, mode of use and references are provided.This review defiantly helps to future scientist in this area.
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