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Ethnobotanical Wealth of Home Gardens
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Author(s): Bimal K. Chetri (Department of Environment and Life Science, Sherubtse College, Royal University of Bhutan, Bhutan), Namgay Rinchen (Department of Environment and Life Science, Sherubtse College, Royal University of Bhutan, Bhutan)and Karma Wangchuck (Department of Environment and Life Science, Sherubtse College, Royal University of Bhutan, Bhutan)
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 21
Source title:
Ethnomedicinal Plant Use and Practice in Traditional Medicine
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Akash Akash (Gurukul Kangri University, India), Navneet Navneet (Gurukul Kangri University, India)and B.S. Bhandari (Garhwal University, India)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1320-0.ch002
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Abstract
The use of ethnomedicinal plants of home gardens has played an important role in treating minor illnesses related to physical and psychological wellbeing among rural folks. Local healers often use plants from their home garden or nearby forest. In this chapter, the traditional uses of medicinal plants using various tools with sample data have been used to facilitate ethnobotanical research on home gardens. Samples measuring the relative importance of species through quantitative analysis are tabulated. These tools, if applied during in-situ data collection, would help generate reliable information on characteristics of home gardens and medicinal plants. Conservation of medicinal plants from the perspective of home gardening is important. To document how medicinal plants are used to treat different diseases, their use value and ethical considerations would be significant for bioprospecting of medicinal plants and protecting intellectual right of the associated traditional knowledge.
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