1Department of Plant Biology and Plant Biotechnology, Presidency College (Autonomous), Chennai-600 005
Department of Biotechnology, University of Madras, Chennai-600 025
*Corresponding author, Email: ananandal@gmail.com
Online published on 27 August, 2020.
The article deals with Ethno Botanical information collected from Thenukuruba which they use for curing various diseases ailments like fever, stomach-diseases, cuts, wounds, cough and other ailments. Totally around 20 plants have been documented Ethno botanically from the tribal people who live inside the Coorg forested areas of Karnataka. India. Instead of depending on modern scientific medicines these tribal people depend on the herbs, trees to cure diseases. So, the present research paper helps in documenting the Ethnobotanical knowledge of the tribal people into scientific knowledge which will be very much useful to man-kind.
Ethnobotany, Medicinal plants, Thenu Kuruba, Tribes
