Ethnobotany Research and Applications | 2021
Ethnobotanical study of indigenous knowledge on medicinal plants used by the tribal communities in tehsil “Karnah” of District Kupwara (Jammu and Kashmir) India
Abstract
http://dx.doi.org/10.32859/era.21.02.1-14 Ethnobotanical study of indigenous knowledge on medicinal plants used by the tribal communities in tehsil “Karnah” of District Kupwara (Jammu and Kashmir) India Mohammad Asif, Shiekh Marifatul Haq, Umer Yaqoob, Musheerul Hassan and Hammad Ahmad Jan Research Abstract Background: A fair amount of ethnobotanical knowledge of wild plant species is still held by the native people of the Himalayan mountainous region. The present study quantified the ethnobotanical usage of plants in a remote tehsil (Karnah) of district Kupwara, Jammu and Kashmir, evaluating the traditional medicinal plants use against various diseases.