Potential Medicinal Plants of Odisha Used in Rheumatism and Conservation

Odisha, one of the coastal states of Indian sub-continent is endowed with potential medicinal plants owing to its peculiar topography and geographically distributed various microclimatic locations. But due attention was not paid to explore these life forms and alkaloids present in them having need specific chemical constituents. These natural resources are neither being properly exploited and nor even utilized their economic benefits from these Godly life forms. Due to anthropogenic over exploitation, many of such life forms are on the verge of being extinct or rare or vulnerable etc. It is high time to get rid of this ignorance and to plan for an optimal utilization of our nature given resources. To take such an endeavour, this paper deals with 68 medicinal plant species having significant role in curing rheumatism under 62 genera and belonging to 37 families collected from various parts of the state. The species are arranged alphabetically with their family, vernacular name, usable part (in table -1). Concurrently some conservational strategies have also been suggested before it becomes endanger or rare or extinct.

Author(s): S.P. Panda, H.K. Sahoo, H.N. Subudhi, A.K. Sahu

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