Volume : 4, Issue : 1, JAN 2018

ETHNOBOTANICAL STUDY OF SOME WILD TREES OF JAHANABAD DISTRICT, BIHAR , INDIA

PAWAN PRAKASH YADAW, V K PRABHAT, MANORMA KUMARI

Abstract

The present paper deals with the “Ethnobotanical study of some wild trees of jahanabad district, Bihar , India”. during-2014-15 To document the medicinal and other utility of plants. The present paper deals with traditional uses of 06 plants species belonging to 04 genera and 04 families along with correct botanical identification, local names, past used and mode of administration in respect to different applications. The documented ethnomedicinal plants are mostly used to cure sexual disorder, asthma, skin disease, wounds, anaemia, headache, diabetes etc are listed.

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