Indigenous knowledge on medicinal plants used to treat hemorrhoids in selected areas of Madurai district, Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract

The aim of present investigation mainly focused on Indigenous knowledge on Medicinal plants used to treat hemorrhoids in selected areas of Madurai District. It has been shown that 29 medicinal plants belonging to 20 families used to cure hemorrhoids. The ancestral traditional knowledge of people who have been using the native plants for the preparation of drugs and methods of their administration along with doses were recorded, Collected through questionnaire as well as informal personal interviews during field trips. The practical knowledge of people in herbal medicines reveals that they are capable of curing Hemorrhoids.