Volume : 2, Issue : 8, AUG 2016

ETHNOBOTANY OF GINGEE HILLS, VILLUPURAM DISTRICT, TAMIL NADU, INDIA

S. Muruganandam, E. Kamaraj, V. Kadirvelmurugan, S. Ravikumar

Abstract

The study has been carried out on the ethnobotany of Gingee Hills, Villupuram District, Tamil Nadu, India with the assistance of tribes and non-tribal communities in and around the study area. Totally 75 plant species belonging to 38 families, were identified and these plants were used to cure 40 types of problems like allergies,asthma, body pain, body cooling, body strength imbalance, bone fracture, cancer, cough, diabetes, diarrhea, dry cough, dysentery, earache, eye problems, fever, gastro intestinal problems, hair fall, headache, infertility, insect bite, join pains, kidney stone, lever problems, menstrual problems, mucus, nerves disorders, obesity, over bleeding, piles, poisonous bite, sinus, skin diseases, snake bite, sprain, stomach ache, syphilis, toothache, ulcer and wounds. Mostly Trees species are utilized and Leaves are the most useful part for medicine.

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