Plant based native therapy for the treatment of Kidney stones in Aurangabad (M.S)

Abstract

Plants have been the major source of therapeutic agents for curing the human diseases. Tribals as well as the rural people depend for all their medicinal and other necessities on the surrounding plant wealth. The urinary bladder or kidney stone has posed a challenge to the medicinal world. The disease is found occurring in both young and old persons. Even the advanced method and technology for the treatment of urinary calculi is available in the Allopathic system of medicine, it has own limitation as in some cases, several side effects as even periodical reoccurrence of stones in a few. The alternative system of medicine which usually employs natural sources-green medicine with a minimum or no side effects. During the ethnobotanical survey of plants from Aurangabad region, a few medicinal plants used in the treatment of kidney stones have been recorded which are discussed in this paper.