Plants Used in the Treatment of Piles by the Scheduled Caste Community of Andro Village in Imphal East District, Manipur (India)

Thiyam Tomba Singh; Hanjabam Manoranjan Sharma; Anoubam Radhapyari Devi; Hanjabam Rajanikanta Sharma

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Plants Used in the Treatment of Piles by the Scheduled Caste Community of Andro Village in Imphal East District, Manipur (India)

Thiyam Tomba Singh, Hanjabam Manoranjan Sharma, Anoubam Radhapyari Devi, Hanjabam Rajanikanta Sharma

Published in Journal of Plant Sciences (Volume 2, Issue 3)

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Abstract

The present study was carried out at Andro Village in Imphal East district (Manipur) in the remote North-Eastern corner of India. The village is inhabited by a scheduled caste community known as ‘Lois’. The scheduled caste people of Andro Village have a very good knowledge about the treatment of various diseases and ailments with plants. Hemorrhoids’ (Piles) is commonly occurring ailment in Andro village and the villagers treat Piles successfully with the help of different plant species found within their village and the adjoining Baruni (Nongmaiching) Hills. Every elderly people of Andro have common knowledge and easy cure for many common aliments and most of the elderly people uses and prepare different types of medicines from different plant parts. A total of 29 medicinal plant species belonging to 27 genera and distributed over 19 families were found to be used by the schedule caste community of Andro in the treatment of rectum disease-piles. Some of the species used are Acacia farnesiana (Linn.) Willd., Azadirachta indica A.Juss., .Chamaesvce hirta (L.) Millsp, Elsholtzia blanda (Benth.) Benth., Hedychium coronarium Koenig ex Retz., Lantana camara Linn., Leucaena leucocephala (Lamk.) de Wit, Nicotiana plumbaginifolia Viv., Xylosma longifolium Clos etc.

Published in	Journal of Plant Sciences (Volume 2, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.jps.20140203.13
Page(s)	113-119
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Scheduled Caste Community, Andro, Manipur, Piles, Traditional Knowledge

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Thiyam Tomba Singh, Hanjabam Manoranjan Sharma, Anoubam Radhapyari Devi, Hanjabam Rajanikanta Sharma. Plants Used in the Treatment of Piles by the Scheduled Caste Community of Andro Village in Imphal East District, Manipur (India). J Plant Sci. 2014;2(3):113-119. doi: 10.11648/j.jps.20140203.13

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Thiyam Tomba Singh

Department of Botany, Thoubal College, Thoubal (Manipur)-795138, India
Hanjabam Manoranjan Sharma

Department of Botany, Thoubal College, Thoubal (Manipur)-795138, India
Anoubam Radhapyari Devi

P.G. Department of Botany, D.M. College of Science, Imphal (Manipur)-795001 India
Hanjabam Rajanikanta Sharma

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali (Punjab)- 160055 India

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