A study on the medicinal plants used by the local traditional healers of Shahdol district (M.P.) for curing reproductive health related disorders

Abstract

The primary objective of this study is to present a database on indigenous knowledge on medicinal plants used for reproductive disease among the local traditional healers of Shahdol district of Madhya Pradesh, India in the year of 2021-2022 various medicinal plants are present. The tribal people like Bhil, Gond and Baiga are used these plants for different diseases. The use of these herbal medicines has important role in the modern medicine stream like homeopathy, ayurveda, unani etc. The use of herbal medicine is not only cost effective but also safe and almost free from serious side effects. A total 70 medicinal plants species distributed in 37 families in this districts. These medicinal plants are use for headache, earache, stomachache, antioxidants enriched plants, liver protective, renal protective, antidiabetic, abortificients, wound infections, skin infections, fever, cough, diarrhea, eye infections, general weakness, blood purifier medicinal plants etc.