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Medicinal plants are treating and preventing various diseases. There is urgency in recording such data. This is first ethno botanical study in which statistical calculations about plants are done by Informant Consensus Factor method in the study area. The aim of the present study is to identify plants collected for medicinal purposes by the traditional healers of Kudavasal taluk located in Thiruvarur district of Tamil Nadu, India and to document prepare and use the traditional names of these plants. Field study was carried out for a period of one year in (tk), located in Thiruvarur district of Tamil Nadu. The ethnovet-erinary information’s were collected through interviews among traditional healers. The collected data were analyzed through RFC, UV, CI, FI, RI and ICF. A total of 54 species of plants distributed in 51 genera belonging to 33 families were identified as commonly used ethno medicinal plants by traditional healers in Kudavasal (tk) for the treatment of 12 ailment categories based on the animal body systems treated. Leaves are the most frequently used plant parts and most of the medicines are prepared in the form of paste, administrated orally and inhalation. The most important species according to their use value are Oryza sativa (0.977). In these studies some of the plant species are first position in relative importance Datura metel (2.00) followed by Azadirachta indica (1.80). ICF values of the present study indicate that a urological ailment is the highest use report. In this study, documenting the medicinal plants and associated indigenous knowledge can be used for conservation and sustainable use of medicinal plants in the area and for validation of these plant preparations for veterinary treatment. The study has various socioeconomic dimensions associated with the local communities.
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The authors are grateful to the UGC Major Research project, New Delhi, India (MRP R. No.: 41-472/2012(SR)) for providing financial assistant in this project. We specially express our thanks to the management of A.V.V.M. Sri Pushpam College (Autonomous), Poondi, for providing necessary facilities and support to carry out this work.
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RP assisted in collecting and identifying plant samples, making a herbarium. JEMY assisted in the conducting data analysis and drafting the paper. SV undertook a critical reading of the manuscript. SP was responsible for maintenance of herbarium. All the authors have read the final manuscript and agreed to its submission for appraisal.
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Parthiban, R., Vijayakumar, S., Prabhu, S. et al. Quantitative traditional knowledge of medicinal plants used to treat livestock diseases from Kudavasal taluk of Thiruvarur district, Tamil Nadu, India. Rev. Bras. Farmacogn. 26, 109–121 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bjp.2015.07.016
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