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ETHNOBOTANICAL STUDY OF MEDICINAL PLANTS USED BY VILLAGERS IN KOLLI HILLS OF NAMAKKAL DISTRICT OF TAMIL NADU, INDIA Research Article

Palanisamy Murugesan, G. Balasubramania Raja, Suresh Kumar Marx

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The present study deals with the medicinal plants used by the people of Kolli Hills for treatment and prevention of various ailments. For the study filed visits were organized frequently from March 2009 to May 2010 to Kolli Hills of Namakkal district. The present investigation provides ethnobotanical information of various medicinal plants used by the village peoples, herbal medicine practitioners and other traditional healers of Kolli Hills. A total of 54 plants were enumerated with their medicinal importance and parts of those plants used to treat various ailments. Now there is a need for cultivation and conservation of these medicinal plants for discovering new plant medicines in the future.

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The present study deals with the medicinal plants used by the people of Kolli Hills for treatment and prevention of various ailments. For the study filed visits were organized frequently from March 2009 to May 2010 to Kolli Hills of Namakkal district. The present investigation provides ethnobotanical information of various medicinal plants used by the village peoples, herbal medicine practitioners and other traditional healers of Kolli Hills. A total of 54 plants were enumerated with their medicinal importance and parts of those plants used to treat various ailments. Now there is a need for cultivation and conservation of these medicinal plants for discovering new plant medicines in the future.

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The present study deals with the medicinal plants used by the people of Kolli Hills for treatment and prevention of various ailments. For the study filed visits were organized frequently from March 2009 to May 2010 to Kolli Hills of Namakkal district. The present investigation provides ethnobotanical information of various medicinal plants used by the village peoples, herbal medicine practitioners and other traditional healers of Kolli Hills. A total of 54 plants were enumerated with their medicinal importance and parts of those plants used to treat various ailments. Now there is a need for cultivation and conservation of these medicinal plants for discovering new plant medicines in the future.

Key concepts: Ethnobotany, Tamil, Medicinal plants, Traditional medicine, Geography, Medicine, Linguistics, Philosophy

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