Research Article
Studies of Traditional Medicinal Plants of Surguja District (C.G.)
Verma S1*, Dubey V2 and Sharma RP3
1 Department of Botany , Government Agrasen College, Bilha, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh India
2 Head of the Department, C.M.Dubey P.G. College, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh India
3 Government Agrasen College, Bilha, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh India
2 Head of the Department, C.M.Dubey P.G. College, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh India
3 Government Agrasen College, Bilha, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh India
*Corresponding author: Shubha Verma, Department of Botany, Govt. Agrasen College, Bilha, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh India E-mail Id: vermashubha27@gmail.com Mobile Number-9926134188
Copyright: © Verma S, et al. 2023. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Article Information: Submission: 05/05/2023; Accepted: 07/06/2023; Published: 12/06/2023
Abstract:
Surguja is a tribal dominated district in the north-eastern part of the Chhattisgarh State of India. Surguja district harbours rich biodiversity of medicinal plants. People of Surguja district, using indigenous local medicinal plants for the treatment of various diseases. During April 2022 to March 2023 field
surveys were conducted in Lundra, Ambikapur, Udaipur, Lakhanpur and Batauli block and a total 152 species of medicinal plants were recorded belonging to 52 families. In these 147 were dicot and 5 species were monocot. Fabaceae was the largest family with the 14 species, Asteraceae, Lamiaceae,
Caesalpiniaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Amaranthaceae and Solanaceae were the dominating families belonging to 8 to 10 species of medicinal plants. Twentyeight families were represented by single genera. Out of 152 species 95 were herbs, 12 species were shrub, 10 species were climber and the rest of the 33
species were trees. Plant parts used as a medicine were leaf, stem, bark, root, rhizome, latex, seeds, flower and 26% times whole plant. About 152 species, 34 percent of leaves, are being used as medicine. Ten percent times roots, 26 percent times whole plants are used as a medicine for treatment of different
diseases.Keywords: Medicinal plants; Surguja district; Medicine men; Herbal healers