Traditional Uses and Ethno-Medicinal Plants: Insights From the Korba District of Chhattisgarh, India

The state of Chhattisgarh has a very wide variety of ethno-medicinal plants.Over the past thirty years, a large number of ethnobotanists have gathered information on medicinal plants from across the nation.Chhattisgarh state truly has a wealth of natural beauty, rich history, and diverse cultures.Many prominent tribes, including as the Pardhi, Bhariya, Mandia, Kamar, Bhatara, Oraon, Binjhwar, Kanwar, Korwa, Binjhuar, Baiga, Bhumia, Agariya, and Gond, are found in the state.These tribes' rural and hilly terrain gives them access to a wide range of medicinal plants and objects, which they utilize to treat ailments in both humans and animals.This technique can be used to extract a chemical from plant matter that has therapeutic use.The present Ethno-medicinal plants documentation and utilization pattern indicates rich traditional knowledge on medico-botanical aspects of the study area by aboriginal communities of Chhattisgarh and as diverse ethno-medicinal plant species were actively harbored and maintained in the Chaturgarh forest by the inhabitants for their primary health care and well-being that usually were supplemented prior to modern health care system.Diverse ethno-medicinal plant species being maintained in the forest area is significant in conservation of these species that too in a human dominated landscape when these plant species are threatened for existence due to habitat destruction and mining exploitation in their natural habitats.