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Table: 2- Medicinal use according to Communities. [7]
S.No. COMMUNITIES PLANT
PARTS
USES
1. Ethnic Communities of Root Gout, stomachache and as
North-East India
tonic.
2. Munda and Oraon Tuber Antifertility purpose.
3. Santal (i)Tuberous
root.
(ii) Plant
4. Ethnic Communities of
Bihar
Abortion purpose, in intermittent
fevers, wounds.
Spleen
tumours.
complaints, syphilis,
iii) Leaf Asthma.
Root Cholera, to facilitate childbirth.
5. Ethnic
Orissa
Communities of Tuber Abortifacient.
6. Tribes of Varanasi Root Gout.
7. Tribes of Pithoragarh Tuber Gonorrhoea, leprosy, piles.
8. Ethnic Communities of
Dehra Dun and Siwalik
9. Ethnic Communities of
Garhwal
Root Anthelmintic.
Tuberous
root
Abortion.
Table: 3- Medicinal use according to literature. [7]
S.No. SOURCE OF PLANT
USES
LITERATURE
PARTS
1. Charaka Samhita Plant Useful in itching, skin diseases
including wounds and ailments
caused by vitiated kapha
2. Sushruta Samhita Root
(phlegm) and vata (wind).
Can be administered to a
delivered mother along with
spirituous drink to give relieve
to her postnatal complaints.
3. Rajanighantu Plant Parts It is pungent, thermogenic,
eliminates deranged kapha
(phlegm) and vata (wind),
4. Dhanvantari Nighantu Plant Parts
terminates pregnancy.
In addition to the above, it is
also useful in dropsy, labour
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