%0 Journal Article
%T Crop weeds diversity and their ethnomedicinal uses in the treatment of common ailments in Jajpur district of Odisha (India)
%A Kunja B. SATAPATHY
%A Binod B. SAHU
%A Gouri Sankar JENA
%J International Journal of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants
%D 2012
%I 
%X An ethnobotanical exploration was undertaken in three selected Community Development Blocks (C. D. Block) namely Dasarathpur, Rasulpur and Sukinda in the crop fields of rice in ¡®Kharif¡¯ (warm rainy season) and in mustard, black gram, groundnut and potato crop fields in ¡®Rabi¡¯ (winter season). Some common people comprising of tribal and non-tribal were approached to name and show the weeds in these crop fields, which they use for medicinal purposes to cure human and animal diseases. Of the total 65 weed species present in 3 C.D. Blocks under study, it was revealed that common people use 53 species for medicinal purposes. Some of the potential ethnomedicinal weeds are Alternanthera sessilis, used in dysentery; Amaranthus spinosus, in abscesses and eczema; Blumea lacera, to hasten the expulsion of placenta of cow after calving; Chenopodium album, used to improve appetite, abdominal pains; Cynodon dactylon, used as antihaemorrhagic, in dysentery and nasal bleeding; Cyperus rotundus, roots are useful in dysentery, vomiting, epilepsy; Eclipta prostrata, as anthelmintic, and wounds; Euphorbia hirta, in ring worm and old wounds; Heliotropium indicum, in abscess of joints; Marsilea minuta, in sleeplessness and insect bites etc.
%K Ethnomedicine
%K Common ailments
%K Crop weeds
%K Odisha
%U http://www.openaccessscience.com/pdf-files/vol2_1_mar2012/IJMAP_2_1_11_JajpurOdisha.pdf