Folk Medicinal Uses of the Leaves of Plants of Banaras Hindu University Main Campus, India
Abstract
The present study presents the folk medicinal uses of the leaves of plants of Banaras Hindu University main campus, India spreading over 1,350 acres of land area. Forty one plants of 38 genera belonging to 23 families were recorded on the university campus whose leaves are therapeutically used against different ailments like fever, cough, asthma, bronchitis, jaundice, gonorrhoea, diarrhoea dysentery, piles, constipation, kidney stones, insomnia, mental debility, toothache, earache, stomatitis, eczema, mouth ulcers, swellings etc. Fabaceae, Asteraceae and Lamiaceae were the dominant families of the folk medicinal plants (whose leaves are used as folk medicines) on the university campus.
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