Some Unique Herbal Remedies Against Cough and Cold From Marathwadi Ghat Areas in Beed District (M.S.)

Abstract

An extensive field surveys were arranged in Imampur Ghat areas to document the ethno-medicinal information regarding the use of wild and endemic ethno-flora against cough and cold. The information presented here, is being collected from the local inhabitants through verbal interviews by an informal ways during the period from pre-monsoon of 2009 to the post-monsoon of 2011.The paper focuses on the ethno-medicinal uses of 34 genera belonging to 32 families used for curing cough and cold among the local inhabitants in their routine life. Keywords: Herbal remedy, Imampur Ghat, Traditional knowledge