Study of diversity of medicinal plants used by the maring tribe of manipur, north east india

An ethnobotanical programme was conducted in tribal inhabited areas of Manipur state of North-eastern India with an aim to document the indigenous knowledge of Maring community of the state. Since, the community is mostly located in hilly areas they depend heavily on plant based medicines for curing their diseases. In this study, a total of 101 plant species belonging to 50 families were collected which is used by the tribal community in curing their ailments. The study also revealed the use of some 29 new uses of plants, though earlier mentioned in other works for curing different ailments. A detailed clinical study of some promising plant will bring light in discovering new novel drugs.