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Inventory of Medicinal Plants at Mahadebpur Upazila of Naogaon District, Bangladesh

Smriti Kona
Plant Taxonomy Laboratory, Department of Botany, Faculty of Life and Earth Sciences, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh

A.H.M. Mahbubur Rahman*
Plant Taxonomy Laboratory, Department of Botany, Faculty of Life and Earth Sciences, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

The present paper documented 159 medicinal plants at Mahadebpur Upazila of Naogaon district, Bangladesh belonging to 135 genera and 69 families were used by the local health healers for the treatment of different diseases. These plants are mostly used for curing some common diseases such as diarrhea, dysentery, gastric ulcer, intestinal worms, abdomen pain, fever, malaria, cough, bronchitis, asthma, headache, toothache, wounds and sores, skin diseases, snake bite and some other diseases. The most important medicinal plant families were Acanthaceae, Amaranthaceae, Asteraceae, Apocynaceae, Araceae, Combretaceae, Cucurbitaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Fabaceae, Lamiaceae, Malvaceae, Piperaceae, Poaceae, Rubiaceae, Rutaceae, Solanaceae and Verbenaceae. This study further strengthened the relationship between indigenous knowledge medico-botanical practices and pharmacology.

Keywords: Medicinal plants, Indigenous uses, Naogaon district, Bangladesh

Location: Mahadebpur Upazila of Naogaon district, Bangladesh

Start Date: 00-12-2013

End Date: 00-06-2015

Program Area: Development of Host and Medicinal Plants

Commodity: Medicinal Plants

Objectives:

The aim of the present study was to first record of medicinal plants used by the local people living in Mahadebpur Upazila of Naogaon district, Bangladesh

Methodology:

Study area: Mahadebpur is an upazila of Naogaon District in the Division of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. Mahadebpur is located at 24.918890ºN 88.748455ºE. It has 46642 units of house hold and total area 397.67km² and its bounded by Patnitala on the north, Manda and Naogaon Sadar upazilas on the south, Badalgachi and Naogaon Sadar upazilas on the east and Niamatpur and Porsha upazila on the west. Main rivers are Atrai, Chatra Beel and Bachnakharie noted. The climate of Mahadebpur upazila is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild winters and rainfall. The summer season commerce early in the March with the cessation of the Northerly wind. The winter season (November-January) which is cool and little rainfall; summer season (June-October) which is warm and no rainfall. In terms of temperature variation it appears that average annual temperature is about 26-36. The maximum monthly temperature can reach up to 40.1 during May and minimum monthly temperature 9° C during January. Relative humidity percentage ranged from 55.69% with annual average of 78.89% [5]. Methods of the study: Inventory of medicinal plants at Mahadebpur Upazila of Naogaon District, Bangladesh was carried out from December 2013 to June 2015. A total of 159 medicinal plant species belonging to 135 genera and 69 families were collected and identified. A total of 156 local people having an age rage 18-75 years were interviewed using semi-structured interviewed method [3]. Professionally they were peasant, day labor, farmer, betel leaf cultivators, house wives, medicine men, small shop keepers etc. Among them 76 were female and rest 80 were male. Regular field studies were made in the study area during the period. The information about the plants used for various diseases was gathered through interviews and discussion with the elderly people, medicine men and traditional medical practitioners were also consulted. Identification: The plant specimens were identified by consulting different Floras and literatures, viz and by comparing with the herbarium specimens available at the Herbarium, Department of Botany, Rajshahi University. For updated nomenclature of the species. Voucher specimens are deposited in the Herbarium, Department of Botany, Rajshahi University, Bangladesh.

Source of Information: Applied Ecology and Environmental Sciences, 2016, Vol. 4, No. 3, 75-83 Available online at http://pubs.sciepub.com/aees/4/3/4

Article Link (Online Journal): DOI:10.12691/aees-4-3-4

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Achievement/Findings:

The study also suggested that the present information on medicinal use of plants by the local people may be used for botanical and pharmacological research in future for the discovery of new sources of drugs. All these plants need to be evaluated through phyto and pharmacochemical investigations to discover their potentiality and may help in developing effective drugs for human health care.

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