The Biobrio 11(3 & 4), 2024

Ethnomedicinal study on plants used to cure Kidney Stone by tribals of Dhanbad district of Jharkhand

Neha Kisku, Vidyan Kumari & Akshay Kumar Verma

ABSTRACT:

The ethno medicinal surveys were conducted to document various plants used to heal kidney stone by tribals of Dhanbad district of Jharkhand. Kidney stones are hard deposits of calcium oxalate, uric acid and cystine. The treatment and surgery cost are very expensive so tribals of Dhanbad use alternative way to cure this disease. They use different plants to treat kidney stone. So it is necessary to collect this ethnomedicinal plants information before it is lost. A total of about 28 plants from various plant families were recorded. Different plant morphologies were identified among the plants documented in this study, including shrubs (4%), trees (22%), climbers (11%), and herbs (63%). According to research, leaves account for 36% of the plant components used to prepare medicines, with the whole plant coming in second (21%), followed by the root (14%), fruit (14%), flower (7%), seed (4%), and rhizome (4%).

Keywords:    

Ethno medicinal, kidney stone, Tribals, Calcium oxalate

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