Exploration of ethanomedical and pharmacological values of weeds as a traditional medicinal plant of Southern Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract

India is one of the treasure houses of medicinal plants in the world. These medicinal plants were used to treat various diseases and ailments. The survey of medicinal plants in particular area is important to conserve the traditionally important plants of such landscape. This paper revealed that the traditional medicinal plants of Agriculture College and Research Institute, Kudumiyanmalai and their importance. To document the available traditional medicinal plants of Agriculture College and Research Institute, Kudumiyanmali, Pudukkottai District, Tamil Nadu, South India for the first time as well as the ethanomedical and pharmacological usage of these medicinal plants to remediate the diseases among the peoples. The study was made in Agriculture College and Research Institute, Kudumiyanmalaifor six months from Jan 2022 -Jun 2022 to identified, collected, catalogued and explore the weeds that heals in college campus. For this research paper medicinal plants were taken into account for pharmacological values. From this study, 60 species of valuable medicinal plants belonging to 31 families were recorded and their ethnomedicinal values were collected from kudumiyanmalai and nearby village peoples. This study focuses the importance, utilization, conservation and ethanomedical and pharmacological values of weeds as a traditional medicinal plants.