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Medicinal plant Diversity in Dindigul District, Tamil Nadu (Paperback)
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Medicinal plant Diversity in Dindigul District, Tamil Nadu (Paperback)
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Plants and other living organisms have great potential to treat
human bodies. The current life style of human being is enriched
with sweet bakes and carbohydrate bountiful food. The uncontrolled
diet pattern of the global citizen causes severe side effects and
the most predominant disease is diabetes and hence the organ
affected is human kidney. But, unlikely the medicines used in the
modern allopathic system are too harmful with severe side effects
and the only alternative is to make use of the plant based
remedies. In the present study, 124 plant species of medicinal
plants having anti-diabetic properties and 33 having poisonous
effect were documented. In total there are 157 plant species of
belonging to 144 genera and 68 families and were collected from the
different parts of Dindigul district. Among them Gymnema sylvestre,
Cynodon dactylon, Derris scandens, Mucuna pruriens, and Ficus
racemosa are important anti-diabetic plants frequently used by the
peoples to cure diabetes. Some plants like Abrus precatorius,
Nerium oleander, Digitalis purpurea, Possiflora foetida, Thevetia
peruviana were reported as poisonous for both human and fish.
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