Abstract

SOME LESS KNOWN TRADITIONAL PHYTO-ZOOTHERAPIES IN KALSUBAI HILLS OF AKOLE TAHASIL IN AHMEDNAGAR DISTRICT (M.S.) INDIA

*Salave Ashok Punjaji

ABSTRACT

Frequent field visits were arranged in the study areas season wise during the period from pre-monsoon of 2012 to post-monsoon of 2013 to document information regarding traditional uses of native wild ethno-flora in the life of the local and experienced inhabitants, tribal medicine men which were actively engaged in doing the ethnomedicinal practices. The information is being collected from the local inhabitants through verbal interviews in an informal ways at their working places during the period from pre-monsoon of 2012 to the post-monsoon of 2013.The paper focuses on the phyto-zootherapeutic uses of 18 plant species belonging to 14 families among the local inhabitants in their life.

Keywords: Phyto-zootherapy, Kalsubai hills, Traditional knowledge.