EXPLORATION OF PLANT SPECIES USED BY THE TRIBAL, KOTAS FOR THEIR MEDICINAL USES IN THE UPPER REACHES OF KOTAGIRI, THE NILGIRIS, WESTERN GHATS

Abstract

The medicinal plants provide an efficient local aid to health care and disease free life. The present investigation has been under taken in Trichigady, Kotagiri terrace, Nilgiri biosphere during the study period June 2016 to December 2016. In order to study that the traditional uses of these folk medicinal practice day todays life it as resulted providing information of 66 wild plants. Out of the 140 species are comprised in the families like Acanthaceae, Amaranthaceae, Convolvalaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Rutaceae, Solanaceae etc. In this case study, they are used 66 plants in medicinal purpose and 74 plants are used as edible food respectively.
So this investigation is held us to understand how indigenous knowledge possess by Kota tribal of study area.