Underutilized vegetables with medicinal properties used by the Adi tribes of Arunachal Pradesh

Arunachal Pradesh is rich in biodiversity of different crops. Adi, the tribal society of East Siang district and its surrounding areas in Arunachal Pradesh have the tradition of consuming raw leaves, young inflorescences, tender stalks and other plant parts as food. The present survey was conducted with the methodical field survey during the year 2015–16 and resulted in the collection of 43 wild edible plants. Local people of 30–70 years age group of both genders were interviewed (using standard questionnaires) on the different types of plants’ parts they have been eating raw for generations and medicinal values they obtained from this mode of eating. The interviewees are represented from wide array of the disciplines of the localities (vegetable sellers, collectors, users, scientific societies, etc.) to gather the maximum information related to plants and discuss briefly with particular emphasis on their scientific name, local name, family, parts used and medicinal benefit they claimed to obtain from these plants in this mode of eating.