Grasses are, economically, the most important group of plants; they belong to family poaceae and provide major and minor cereals, fodder and raw material of papers, medicine, drugs etc. The tribal and rural people of Vidisha District use different parts of grasses in crude from as cure for many diseases. This paper deals with 18 grass species used in fungal infection, haematuria, urinary diseases, intestinal warm, fever, cough, body ache, wounds, snakebite, gonorrhoea etc.
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Manuscript Published on 01 March 2007
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