Ethno-medicinal plants used to treat gynecological disorders by tribal people of Madhya Pradesh, India

Abstract

Medicinal plant resources of forest origin are extensively used in India for various systems of medicine like Ayurveda, Unani, Homoeopathy, Allopathy, Siddha and Ethnic etc. Such traditional used of plants as medicine has not been documented properly, rather remain secret and passed from one generation to another through world mouth. Naturally, due to non-recording properly, this traditional knowledge is gradually vanishing as a result of modernization. The present paper enumerates the use of several medicinal plants from in the treatment of gynecological disorders by the tribal of Madhya Pradesh.