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Traditional Methods Against Digestive Disorders by Meenatribe of Sawai Madhopur District

Paper Id : 16953 Submission Date : 09/12/2022 Acceptance Date : 19/12/2022 Publication Date : 25/12/2022
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Meenakshi Baghel
Associate Professor
Botany Department
Government College
Niwai, Tonk ,Rajasthan, India

Abstract

The District Sawai Madhopur is inhabited by large tribal population of Meenas, who have their distinct traditions and cultural heritage. The present article deals with 50 indigenous plants used particularly in various digestive disorders, viz; diarrhea, dysentery constipation, gastritis, ulceration of stomach, cholera, dyspepsia, colic pain, appetite stimulant and anthelminthic. An alphabetical list of these plants has been given along with their local names; part used ailment and mode of administration.

Keywords

Ethno-Medico-Botanical, Digestive Disorders, Meena Tribe.

Introduction

In Rajasthan, 50 per cent of the total tribal population is represented by Meena tribe. According to 1991 census, tehsil Sawai Madhopur has a total of 64000 tribal populations, out of which, 63800 are exceptionally Meenas. Hence, the present study is tribe specific and is focused only on Meena tribe.

Aim of study

Many wild and ultivated plant have remember for disgestive diorders. The data of this study can provide valuable information to phytochemists, pharmacologists, scientist and researcher.

Review of Literature

The present study was carried out in district Sawai Madhopur where forest covers 27.55 per cent of the total geographical area of the district (Mathur 1996). The main concentration of the forest is in the South Eastern part of the district where the dominant plant species are of Anogeissus pendula, Boswellia serrata,Acacia catechu, Butea monosperma, Diospyros. melanoxylon, etc. (Saxena et al., 1973)

A review of ethno botanical literature reveals that the ethno- medicinal aspectof the Meena tribe has not been investigated in detail so far and above all the rising intrusion of so called modern industrialization has taken the ancient culture on the verge of extinction. Hence there is an urgent need to record and preserve the age long practices of the tribe before the valuable data get lost in near future.

Methodology

The study was conducted during the year 2000-2001, which covered 15 villages of the district Sawai Madhopur namely, Ajnoti, Chakeri, Jatwara Kalan, Jeenapur, Kherli Kalan, Khilchipur, Kundera, Lorwara, Neemli, Kalan, Neemli Khurd, Phosoda, Ranwal, Sherpur, Shyampura, and soorwal following the standard methods of ethnobotan (Raghavaiah, 1956; Jain, 1995; Rao and Hajra, 1995; and Shah, 1997). The information was collected from the key informants like village headman,olderly people, Bhpoas, Nath & Ojhas and the first hand information as obtained from the tribals was confirmed from the non tribals. Some experienced tribals were taken to the field and forest areas for plant collections. The collected plants were brought to the village and the tribals were interviewed showing each plant. Their local names were written against the field number of each plant in the field diary and their maximum uses were recorded in the tape recorder. Five major plants used in digestive disorders viz Adhatoda zeylanica, Cassia tora, Clerodendrum phlomoides, Helicteres isora, and Moringa oleifera were phytochemically analysed for the presence of sterols, alkaloids, tannins, saponins, triterpenoids, flavonoids, and phenols.

Result and Discussion

In the present study, the use of 50 plant remedies by Meenas against digestive disorders is recorded. The drugs are taken orally either in the form of extract (by crushing or slicing the plant part) or decoction (by boiling the plant partin water, milk or oil). The use of Amaranthes viridis in digestive disorders find similar use in folk medicine of Kurukshetra district in Haryana (Lal and Yadav, 1983). These drugs, owing to their low cost, easy accessibility and no side effects are drawing more and more attention of the scientists and pharmacologists. All the five plants selected for phytochemical analysis, viz. Adhatoda zeylanica, Cassia tora, Clerodendrum phlomodes, Helicteres isora and Moringa oleifera showed the presence of tannins, triterpenoids, flavonoids and phenols. Tannins are known as astringent and used against diarrohea. Similarly flawonoids and triterpenoids are antiinflammatory and have dramatic physiological activities (Tripathi and Rastogi, 1981 and Chawala et al., 1987). Their presence may be attributed to the medicinal properties of the above plants.

Table 1: Enumeration of the plants used in Digestive disorders by the Meena tribe of Sawai Madhopur District.

S. No.	Name of the Plant	Part Used	Ailment	Mode of Administration	Local Name
1.	Abelmoschus moschatus	Fruits	Diarrhoea	Macerate-orally	Jangali Bhindi
2.	Acacia catechu	Gum	Diarrhoea	Soaked and consumed with sugar candy	khair
3.	Acacia nilotica subsp.indica	Dry fruits	Diarrhoea and dysentry	Powder in cow-milk and sugar candy-orally	Desi babool
4.	Acalypha indica	Root	Constipation and colic pain	Paste-orally	Kuppi, Kholi
5.	Achyranthes aspera	Seeds	Dysentry and gastralgia	Paste in milk orally	Andhijhara
6.	Adhatoda-zeylanica	Seeds	Diarrhoea	Powder with milkorally	Adusa
7.	Aegle marmelos	Unripe fruits	Diarrhoea and dysentry	Pulp powder orally	Bael
8.	Amaranthus spinosus	Whole plant	Gastritis	Decoction-orally	Kante wali chaulai
9.	Amaranthus viridis	Whole plant	Gastritis	Decoction-orally	Tandula
10.	Argemone mexicana	Seeds	Constipation	Oil with sugar candy-orally	Satyanasi
11.	Asparagus racemosus	Root	Appetite-stimulent	Paste-orally	Satavari
12.	Balanites aegyptiaca	Seed	Gastritis and burning sensation in stomach	Kemel powder with butter milk- orally	Hingota
13.	Bauhinia racemosa	Flowers	Diarrhoea and entery	Bruished and mixed in water-orally	Sainta
14.	Calotropis procera	1. Stem 2. Root	Gastritis Cholera, vomiting sensation and diarrhoea	Latex mixed with turmeric powder and massaged on stomach 100 gm paste in one litre of water-orally	Aak
15.	Cassia fistula	1. Pods 2. Stem bark and leaves	Antihelminthic 1. Ulceration of stomach 2. Dyspepsia and constipation	Pulp mashed in water orally Pulp with butter milk- orally	Amaltas
16.	Cassia tora	Leaves	Constipation	Extract-orally	Punwad
17.	Citrullus colocynthes	Fruits	1. Gastritis, dyspepsia (also in cattle)] 2. Constipation	Filled with seeds of Trachyspermum ammi and fruit powder of Cucumis callaosus and boiled-orally Pulp with sugar and water-orally	Papad pinda
18.	Citrus medica	Fruit	Stomach ulcer and diarrhoea	Juice-orally followed by milk	Neembu
19.	Clerodendrum phlomoides	Leaves	Antihelminthic	Juice mixed in fruit juice of Aegle marmelos orally	Arnea
20.	Cucumis callosus + Sesbania bispinosa	Seeds	Purgative and in gastritis	Powder of both seeds mixed in rind powder of Cucumis callosus and jaggery and cooked in water-orally	Kachari +Dadon
21.	Euphorbia nerifolia	Leaves	As purgative	Cooked and consumed	Thoor
22.	Ferula asaofetida	Gum resin	Gastritis	Powder in water-orally	Hing
23.	Ficus benghalensis	Leaves	Diarrhoea	Decoction-orally	Bad
24.	Ficus racemosa	Stem	Diarrhoea	Latex with sugar lump-orally	Gular
25.	Gisekia pharmacioides	Whole plant	To kill Ascaris	Extract orally, empty stomach	Balukar sag
26.	Helicteres isora	Pods	Dyspepsia and colic pain	Decoction-orally or powder with curd or honey orally	Maror phali
27.	Holarhena antidysentrica	Bark	Dyspepsia, dysentry and less appetite	Extract-orally	Kutaj
28.	Lepidium sativum	Seeds	Diarrhoea	Decoction-orally	Halim
29.	Mallotus philippensis	Seeds	As purgative and antihelminthic	Powder-orally	Kamila
30.	Mangifera indica	Cotyledons	Diarrhoea and dysentry	Powder with honey-orally	Aam
31.	Melia azedarach	Leaves	Against tape worms.	Extract with sugar orally	Bakain
32.	Mentha spicata	Leaves	Dyspepsia	Paste-orally	Pudina
33.	Moringa oleifera	Leaves	1.Acute dyspepsia,flatulence and colic Cholera and diarrhoea	Extract with goat milk - orally Extract orally	Saljana
34.	Nymphoides hydrophylla	Bark	As purgative	Soaked to form pasteorally with water	Load
35.	Ocimum canum	Seeds	Loss of appetite	Paste in milk-orally	Nagad bapchi
36.	Oxalis corniculata	Leaves	Loss of appetite	Extract-orally	Khatti buti
37.	Pedalium murex	Whole plant	Appetite stimulant	Extract-orally	Bada gokhru
38.	Phoenix sylvestris	Young leaves	Dyspepsia	Extract-orally	Khajoor
39.	Plumbago zeylanica	Root	Appetite stimulant	Extract-orally	Chakwad
40.	Ricinus communis	1. Seeds 2. Seed oil	Dyspepsia, stomach ulcer and constipation	White part of seed with milk -orally. Few drops of oil- orally followed by seed husk of plantago ovata in butter milk or curd	Arundi
41.	Salvadora persica	Leaves	As purgative	Paste in milk or honey-orally	Pilu
42.	Sida ovata	Root	Appetite stimulant	Extract-orally	Khareti
43.	Solanum virginianum	1. Whole plant 2. Flowers	Dyspepsia in cattle Diarrohea	Paste with salt-orally Grinded with leaves and flowers of Capparis decidua, turmeric powder and salt-orally	Pasar Kateli
44.	Syzygium aromaticum	Flower buds	Appetizer	Soaked in earthen pot and made into decotion-orally	Laung
45.	Syzygium cumini	Fruits	As purgative	Consumed-orally	Jamun
46.	Tephrosia purpurea	1.Root 2. Whole plant	Flatulence and colic (men) Gastritis and dyspepsia (Cattle)	Extract-orally Paste- orally	Dhamasa
47.	Trachyspermum ammi	Seeds	Gastritis	powder with water, jaggery and salt-orally	Ajwain
48.	Vitex negundo	Leaves	Dyspepsia	Leaves packed in a cloth and immersed in cooking rice. Rice is then consumed	Negad
49.	Wrightia tinctoria	1. Leaves 2. Seeds	Diarrhoea Gastritis (cattle)	Decoction-orally Powder in water - orally	Kath khami
50.	Ziziphus mauritiana	Bark	Dysentry	Extract-orally	Bad bor

Conclusion

Many of these traditional drugs have proved efficacious after detailed pharmacological and clinical trials. Hence ethno-botanical data can provide valuable information to phytochemists, pharmacologists, scientists and researchers.

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