Study of medicinal plants utilised by Rajbangsi’s: Against fever in Cooch Behar, West Bengal, India, from an ethno botanical perspective

Abstract

Due to its location and ecologically fragile conditions, the northern region of India offers a wide variety of medicinal plants. Since 3,000 years ago, sickness has been treated using these conventional methods. Due to the high demand for these therapeutic herbs, the majority of plant populations have declined, which suggests that the communities who use the plants lack basic ecological understanding. Thus, an attempt was made in this study of ethnomedicinal plants that are used by rajbangsi people for fever, to determine their availability on the growing site and to inform people about the sustainable exploitation of medicinal plants in the wild. Cooch Behar have a great wealth of traditional knowledge and medicinal plants Medicinal plants have played an important role of primary health care system among the local people of Cooch Behar. The present paper is a study of traditional knowledge of medicinal plants and its use by local people of Cooch Behar and Rajbangsi community. Due to the unique geographic location and different climatic condition, it has variety of plant species. The present paper focuses about the indigenous knowledge of different medicinal plants in the Cooch Behar region. Ethno medicinal uses of 35 plant species along with botanical name, family, local name, parts used and therapeutic uses are given in this paper.