Rajendra Yonzone, R B Bhujel and Samuel Rai
Cluny Womenâ??s College, India
Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Altern Integr Med
Darjeeling is the northern-most hilly district of West Bengal and it falls under the Eastern Himalaya and it has rich diversity of vegetation with different physiographic features and their ecological relationship. It lies between 27?º31â??05â? and 26?º27â??10â? North latitude and between 88?º53â??00â? and 87?º59â??30â? East longitude. Darjeeling Himalayan region has multicultural, multilingual and multi ethnic races. The pre inhabited ethnic group live in the remote rural areas are Lepcha, Sherpa, Yolmo, Limbu, Khambu Rai, Bhujel, Manger, Gurung, Mukhia and Tamang. Other inhabitants of villages and far-flung areas are Newar/Pradhan, Sharma, Chettri, Kami and Damai. They are dependent to the forest resources for their day-to-day activities. The present work is focused on the uses of different ethnomedicinal plant species on basic health care and day to day use by all the inhabitants in the area. The botanical names arranged alphabetically with their families, local names (Nepali) of 273 plant species have been recorded and the plant parts which are used as medicines and others have been tabulated for the specific disease and ethnic purposes. A large number of ethnomedicinal plant species were used by the local inhabitants in Darjeeling Himalaya for treating different ailments and many other purposes. This knowledge remains mostly with the traditional medical practitioners called Baidhang or Jhankri who were mostly old illiterate people of the regions. Those people had a sound knowledge of the ethnobotany, ethnobiology and biodiversity in their surrounding environments.
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