Traditional Medicinal Plants of Odisha

Authors

  • Gyanaranjan Sahoo
  • Afaq Majid Wani
  • Bineeta Satpathy
  • Sandeep Rout

Abstract

This study summarises the traditional medicinal plant of Odisha. Use of plants as a supply of medicine has been an ancient tradition and is a very important part of the health care system in India. General public, academic and government interest in conventional medicines is growing speedily because of the rise in side effects of the adverse drug reactions and  issue of the present system of medicine. It is estimated that the different systems of Indian medicine use about 80,000 species of plants are used in some kind or alternative by the various systems of Indian medicine. Odisha, one amongst the coastal states of Indian sub-continent is endowed with potential medicinal plants owing to its peculiar topography and geographically distributed numerous microclimatic locations. However due care was not paid to explore these life forms and gift of alkaloids in them that would like unique chemical components. The natural resources are not adequately used and their social sides from the ways of Godly life are not even used. Several such life forms are on the verge of becoming extinct or rare or vulnerable, etc., because of anthropogenic over exploitation. It also takes time for scientific studies to be done on these conventional medicinal plants and to conserve them for sustainable use.

 

Keywords: Conservation, medicinal plant, NTFP, OFDC, traditional knowledge

 

Cite this Article

Gyanaranjan Sahoo, Afaq Majid Wani, Bineeta Satpathy, Sandeep Rout. Traditional Medicinal Plants of Odisha. Research & Reviews: A Journal of Pharmacognosy. 2020; 7(3): 7–10p.

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Published

2021-01-09

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Vol. 7 No. 3 (2020)

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Review Article

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