Research Article | Published: 01 December 2003

Ethnobotanic medical treatment of skin diseases in India

H. S. Kirn, B. K. Kapahi and Baleshwar

Journal of Non-Timber Forest Products | Volume: 10 | Issue: 3/4 | Page No. 172-181 | 2003
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54207/bsmps2000-2003-7U5B6G | Cite this article

Abstract

People living in the far flung and remote areas in India mostly do not have access to modern medicine and depend on available wild resources for treating various ailments and this knowledge has passed on from generation to generation. In the present communication folk prescriptions of botanical origin for treating some of the cutaneous ailments, viz-a-viz, acne vulgaris, boils and pustules, chapped and cracked skin, corns, eczema, freckles, herpes, leprosy, leucoderma, psoriasis, scabies, urticaria and whitlow are provided. This may help in utilizing the local flora for alleviating some of such ailments by the poor and common man.

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Kirn, H.S., Kapahi, B.K. and Baleshwar, 2003. Ethnobotanic medical treatment of skin diseases in India. Journal of Non-Timber Forest Products, 10(3/4), pp.172-181. https://doi.org/10.54207/bsmps2000-2003-7U5B6G

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