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Medicinal plants are integral part of Indian tradition. This traditional practice helped people of India to sustain successfully in this pandemic situation. According to the WHO, approximately 80% of the world’s population relies on plant-based preparations for their primary health care needs. The present work was carried to identify the medicinal plants and their ethno botanical use. The area under study is the Amarawati region of state Maharashtra, India. The study was carried out for six months and Ethno botanical data was acquired by conducting interviews using specially designed techniques for collecting ethno pharmacological information. The study reveals the presence of 45 plant species belonging to 22 angiosperm families, which were commonly used for medicinal purposes. Most of time urban developmental activities cause damage to such flora. Whereas the community which is familiar with potential of such species try to utilize them on different alignments in over extend.
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Abrew, D. B., Santora, S. R., Ladio, A. H., & Medeiros, P. M. (2015). Medicinal plant knowledge in a context of cultural pluralism: A case study in Northeastern Brazil. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 175, 124-130. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jep.2015.09.019
Bhogaonkar, P. Y. & Devarkar, V. D. (2012). Ethnomedicinal plants used in skin treatment by korkus of Melhgat, Dist. Amravati, India. Life Sciences Leaflets 1: 178-191.
Bidak, L. M., Heneidy, S. Z., Shaltout, K. H., & Al-Sodany, Y. (2013). Current status of the wild medicinal plants in the Western Mediterranean coastal region, Egypt. Journal of Ethnobiology and Traditional Medicine, 120, 566-58.
Bidak, L. M., Kamal, S. A., Halmy, M. W. A., & Heneidya, S. Z. (2015). Goods and services provided by native plants in desert ecosystems: Examples from the northwestern coastal desert of Egypt. Global Ecology and Conservation, 3, 433-447. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2015.02.001
Croitoru, L. (2007). Valuing the nontimber forest products in the Mediterranean region. Ecological Economics, 63(4), 768-775. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2007.01.014
Dhore, M. A. (1986). Flora of Amravati district (Ph.D. Thesis). S.R.T.M. Nagpur University.Hurrell, J. A., Jeremías P. Puentes, & Patricia M. A. (2013). Medicinal plants with cholesterol-lowering effect marketed in the Buenos Aires-La Plata conurbation, Argentina: An Urban Ethnobotany study. Ethnobiology and Conservation, 4, 6-17.
Jain, D. L., Baheti, A. M., Jain, S. R., & Khandelwal, K. R. (2010). Use of medicinal plants among tribes in Satpuda region of Dhule and Jalgaon districts of Maharashtra—an ethnobotanical survey. Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge, 9(1), 152-157.
Prakash, R. (2014). Traditional Uses of Medicinal Plants in Uttarakhand Himalayan Region. Scholars' Academic Journal of Biosciences, 2(5), 345-353.
Soman, G. (2014). Some Ethnomedicinal Plants of Panhala Taluka Used as Anti-allergics. Bulletin of Environment, Pharmacology and Life Sciences, 3(6), 128-131.