Ethnobotanical Leaflets 13: 865-72 , 2009.
Ethnomedicinal Uses of Climbers from Saraswati River Region of Patan District, North Gujarat
A. R. Seliya and N.K.Patel
Department of Biology, Sheth M. N. Science College Patan 384 265
Issued July 01, 2009
Abstract During the years 20072008 several field trips were conducted to document the ethnomedicinal uses of climbers of angiosperms from the rural of Saraswati river region of Patan district of North Gujarat area of Gujarat state. Total 30 angiospermic climber species are recorded during these period being practised by rural of these area.
Key words : Ethnomedicine, Climbers.
Introduction
There is no documentation of this ethnomedicinal knowledge. All the more, several climbers are fast disappearing due to little rann of Kachchh and scanty rain. Hence, there is an urgent need for exploration and documentation of this knowledge in order to ascertain the conservation value of the local ethnomedicinal plants of the area. Therefore, the present study is an attempt to present some interesting ethnomedicinal observations recorded in these area, India.
Material and Methods During the present works we have gone in the various villages and forests area including hill and hillocks for collection of angiosperm plants taxa. Good number of the trips where arrange in connection of the season. The collected plants were brought to the laboratory, identified up to species level where ever it is possible and then dried with customary method which was mounted on herbarium sheet and label. The information data on ethnomedicinal were collected through the dialogue and arranging night meeting with local tribal and knowledgeable people of the villages.
Enumeration 1. Abrus precatorius L.( FABACEAE) Vernacular Name: CHANOTHI Parts Used: Seeds, leaves and roots. Uses: Uses in nervous disorders, sciatica and paralysis; leaves decoction use in cough, conic pain, skin diseases; root used in preparation for gonorrhoea, jaundice.
2. Argyreia nervosa (Burm.f.) Boj.( CONVOLVULACEAE) Vernacular Name: SMUDRASOS Parts Used: Roots & Seeds. Uses: The roots are useful in wounds, ulcers, dyspepsia, colic, cough, nervous weakness, syphilis, anaemia and diabetes.
3. Aristolochia bracteolata Lam.( ARISTOLOCHIACEAE) Vernacular Name: BATAK VEL Parts Used: Roots and Leaves Uses:The roots and leaves are useful in vitiated condition of kapha and vata, amenorrhoea, foul ulcers, boils, syphilis, gonorrhoea, skin diseases, eczema.
4. Canavalia hipogea (Jacq.) DC. (FABACEAE) Vernacular Name: FOFAL Parts Uses: Fruits and seeds. Uses: The fruits are useful in burning sensation, hyperdipsia, dyspepsia, wounds, and ulcers.
5.Cayratia carnosa (Lam.) Gagnep.( VITACEAE) Vernacular Name: KHATKHATUMBO Parts Used: Whole plant. Uses: fever, tumours. It purifier the blood, ulcer, wounds, dropsy, haemorrhoids and strangury. Leaves are used in the treatment of yolk sores on the necks of bullocks.
6. Cissus quadrangulare L. ( VITACEAE) Vernacular Name: HADSANKAL FLS: JuneOct. FRS: Aug.Dec. Parts Used: Whole plant. Uses: The plant is bitter. It is useful in skin diseases, colic, chronic ulcer, Tumours. Shoots are useful in asthma, burns and wounds.
7. Citrullus colocynthis (L.) Schrad. (CUCURBITACEAE) Vernacular Name: KADVA INRAVARNA FLS & FRS: Aug. Dec. Parts Used: Fruits and seeds Uses: Fruits are employed in biliousness, jaundice, fever, dropsy, coughs and bronchitis, oil for seeds is used for snake bite and scorpion sting, roots is given in jaundice, and coughs.
8. Clematis gouriana Roxb. (RANUNCULACEAE) Vernacular Name: MOR VEL FLS & FRS: Sep.Dec. Parts Used: Whole plant Uses: The plant is employed in rheumatism. Leaves vesicant.
9. Clitoria ternatea L. (FABACEAE) Vernacular Name: GARNIBIBLI Parts Used: Roots, leaves, seeds. Uses: The roots are bitter, tubercular glands, leucoderma, elephantiasis, ulcer and fever. The roots are cathartic and are useful in visceralgia.
10. Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt (CUCURBITACEAE) Vernacular Name: KADVI GHILODI Parts Used: Roots, leaves and fruits. Uses: The roots; useful in vomiting; leaves vitiated condition of kapha and pitta; fruits useful in skin diseases, fever, asthma, cough and jaundice.
11. Ctenolepis cerasiformis (Stocks) Hk.F. F. (CUCURBITACEAE) Vernacular Name: ANKH FUTAMANI Parts Used: Whole plant Uses: decoction of roots is given in colic, fever, indigestion, anorexia and rheumatism, paste of leaves is applied to boils and swelling, fruits are given in gonorrhoea, fruits pulp is applied on foot sole to cure heat in the body sand on the ratva.
12. Cucumis callosus (rottl.) Cogn. (CUCURBITACEAE) Vernacular Name: KOTHIMDU Parts Used: Roots Uses: Paste of root is applied on scorpion sting, decoction of root is given in indigestion, dropsy, pulp of fruit is women for abortion and to increase menses.
13. Cucumis sativus L. (CUCURBITACEAE) Vernacular Name: KAKADI Parts used: fruits and Seeds. Uses: The fruits are useful in vitiated conditions of pitta, hyperdipsia, fever, jaundice. Seeds are useful in burning sensation, fevers, and renal calculus.
14. Cuscuta reflexa Roxb.( CUSCUTACEAE) Vernacular Name: AMARVEL Parts Used: Whole plant. Uses: The plant is bitter, and is useful in jaundice, cough, cephalagia, fever and paralysis.
15. Dolichos lablab L. (FABACEAE) Vernacular Name: VAL (VALOL) Parts Used: Seeds. Uses: The seeds are useful in nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea.
16. Hemidesmus indicus (L.) R.Br. (PERIPLOCACEAE) Vernacular Name: ANANT VEL Part Used: Roots Uses: Roots are used as substitute for sarcaparilla. Roots are employed in blood diseases, leucorrhoea, fever and calculi.
17. Ipomoea nil (L.) Roth( CONVOLVULACEAE) Vernacular Name: PADADA VEL Parts Used: Seeds. Uses: The seeds are useful in vitiated condition of kapha and vata. Verminosis, skin diseases, leucoderma, dyspepsia, scabies.
18. Lagenaria leucantha (Duch) Rusby (CUCURBITACEAE) Vernacular Name: DUTHIE Parts Used: Leaves and Fruits. Uses: Leaves are applied on swelling and in coughs, Fruits are used as vegetable with beneficially in piles, jaundice, coughs. Bitter variety is used emetic in vomiting and coughs.
19. Leptadenia reticulata (Retz) .( ASCLEPIADACEAE) Vernacular Name: DODI Parts Used: Whole Plant. Uses: The roots are useful in secondary syphilis and tenesmus. Leaves are useful in scorbutic diseases. Seeds are useful in skin diseases, diarrhoea, and scurvy, seminal weakness, asthma, coughs.
20. Luffa acutangula (L.) Roxb. (CUCURBITACEAE) Vernacular Name: TURIYA Parts Used: Whole plant. Uses: Leaves are applied as paste on swelling, piles, splenetic, and. leprosy. Seeds are given in cough. Fruits are used as vegetable; decoction of roots is employed in calculi.
21. Luffa cylindrica (L.) Roem. (CUCURBITACEAE) Vernacular Name: GALKA Parts Used: Leaves and Fruits Uses: Green fruits are used as vegetable and employed in coughs. Juice of leaves is given dropsy. Paste of leaves on swellings, boils, ulcers and wounds.
22. Momordica charantia L. (CUCURBITACEAE) Vernacular Name: KARELA Parts Used: Whole plant Uses: Fruits are used as vegetable in diabetes, piles, worms, jaundice. Juice of leaves is given in snakebite, bleeding piles. Roots are used in ophthalmia and vaginal prolapsed. Seeds are given for round worms and liver worms.
23. Momordica dioica Rxb. (CUCURBITACEAE) Vernacular Name: KANKODA Parts Used: Fruits and Roots Uses: Paste of root of male creeper is applied on scorpion sting, snake bite and rat bite. Fruits used in vegetable in anorexia, diabetes and coughs.
24. Mukia maderaspatana (L.) Roem. (CUCURBITACEAE) Vernacular Name: CHANAK CHIBHDI Parts Used: whole plant Uses: Fruits are eaten in worms. Decoction of plant is given in colic. Roots are chewed in toothache. Leaves paste applied on ulcers.
25. Pergularia daemia (Forssk) Chiov. ( ASCLEPIADACEAE) Vernacular Name: CHAMAR DUDHELI Parts Used: Whole plant Uses: It is useful in vitiated condition of vata and kapha, cough, asthma, fevers, the leaves are used in vitiated condition of kapha, leprosy, fruits are useful in dyspepsia,
26. Phaseolus vulgaris (FABACEAE) Vernacular Name: FANSI Parts Used: Bean pods and Bean. Uses: The pods are a mediumstrength diuretic, stimulating urine flow and the flushing of toxins from the body. Powdered are also used in reducing blood glucose level in the treatment of diabetes.
27. Passiflora foetida L.( PASSIFLORACEAE) Vernacular Name: KRISHNA KAMAL Parts Used: Whole plant Uses: Plant paste is applied on itches, boils, wound, swelling and headache, fruits are given in asthma, biliousness and giddiness, leaf juice is used as vaginal douche to increase menses.
28. Trichosanthes bracteata (Lam.) Voigt. (CUCURBITACEAE) Vernacular Name: RATA INDRAMANA Parts Used: Fruits Uses: Fruit pulp is boiled in Brassica oil and applied on head to cure headache. Also applied on wounds, ulcers and boils.
29. Trichosanthes dioica Roxb(CUCURBITACEAE) Vernacular Name: PARVAL Parts Used: Fruits And Roots. Uses: Fruits are used as vegetable in anorexia, jaundice and indigestion. The roots are used in fever, boils and skin diseases.
30. Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp. (FABACEAE) Vernacular Name: CHOLI Parts Used: Seeds and Fruits Uses: Dried seeds are cooked and used as vegetable, green fresh pods are also used as vegetable and in crease sexual vigour and to increase breasts milk.
DiscussionRural people are habituated in herbal practices. Ethno pharmacological analysis is required for proper usage and doses. AcknowledgementsThe authors are thankful to the notified and denotified rural and tribal groups, their vaids, ojhas, bhopas etc. and forest officials whom provided valuable information on this subject. We are also thankful to the authorities of various herbaria and museums for their help and cooperation extended in several ways. References
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