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Ethno-medico Studies on the Uses of Plant in the Chakma Community of Khagrachari District, Bangladesh

M. Sala Uddin
Department of Botany, University of Chittagong, Chittagong-4331, Bangladesh

J. J. Chakma
Department of Botany, University of Chittagong, Chittagong-4331, Bangladesh.

K. M. M. Alam
Department of Botany, University of Chittagong, Chittagong-4331, Bangladesh

S. B. Uddin
Department of Botany, University of Chittagong, Chittagong-4331, Bangladesh.

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

Traditional folklore studies have obtained a substantial momentum in the recent past, throughout the case of the world including Bangladesh. A survey work was done in Khagrachari district in the Chakma community and studied medicinal plants that are used by the Chakma community. All the plants were listed along with their scientific name, chakma name, local name, habit, family, used parts and the ethnomedicinal uses. A total of 50 plant species in 47 genera under 37 families have been identified which are used to treat 29 different ailments by the traditional healers. Apocynaceae is the most frequently used family in context to the number of species used by the Chakma Community. The other important families used for medicinal plants are Caesalpiniaceae, Amaranthaceae, Rutaceae, Araceae, Zingiberaceae, Asteraceae, Liliaceae and Combretaceae respectively. Mostly leaves are used for the formulation of folk medicine. An attempted has been made to document the ethnophy to therapeutics and the folk claims of the plant parts used along with their medicinal uses.

Keywords: Ethnomedicinal plants, Khagrachari district, Chakma community, Bangladesh.

Location: Khagrachari district, Bangladesh

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Program Area: Development of Host and Medicinal Plants

Commodity: Medicinal Plants

Objectives:

All of them basically worked on the traditional plant use of tribal community as well as the Bengali people and medicinal plant. Considering the above facts, the present study was undertaken to assess the documentation of the ethno-medicinal use of plants in the Chakma community, Khagrachari district of Bangladesh.

Methodology:

During the course of exploration and collection different villages of forested area were surveyed and ethnomedicinal information’s were collected by conducting interviews of local traditional healers who prescribe their herbal formulations and various ethnobotanical aspects i.e. utilization, domestication, conservations and phyto worships practices through repeated field trips. The documentation, data sheet has been prepared based on Alcorn 1984, Jain 1989, Martin 1995 and Cotton 1997. The collected plants specimens were preserved in the Chittagong University Herbarium (CTGUH) using standard techniques. The specimens have been identified consulting with the experts through studying several available literatures. The recognized families in this work have been arranged alphabetically according to Cronquist, 1982. In order to find out the current nomenclature the different taxonomic literatures have been consulted series of flora of Bangladesh, and a book.

Source of Information: Journal of Medicinal Plants Studies 2015; 3(1): 10-15

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Achievement/Findings:

The present study adds to the earlier knowledge regarding the use of plants in the treatment of common diseases. The increasing demand of medicinal flora has resulted in the rapid dwindling of these natural resources. There is an urgent need of systematic conservation and sustainable production of medicinal plants involving local communities, researchers and departmental field group with stronger linkage for collaborative work to meet future demand on a sustained manner.

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