Exploration of ethnomedicinal plants of family Fabaceae used by the tribes of Bodla Block, Kabir Dham district, (C.G.) India

The current study deals with certain plants of the family Fabaceae, which are Ethnomedicinally exploited by local tribal people of Bodla Block, Kabir Dham District, (C.G) India. In the world's largest Family of flowering plants, Fabaceae is the third largest group of plants, having around 19,400 species and is classified in about 730 genera. A large number of crude drugs used in the Ayurvedic system employ plants of the family Fabaceae. It is also divided into three sub-families: Papilionaceae, Caesalpinioideae, and Mimosoideae. The present study deals with the study of medicinal plants initiated to get information and report the medicinal plants of the family Fabaceae of Bodla Block during field observation in 2023-24. It is observed that a total of 55 Medicinal plant species belonging to 40 genera were utilised by the local health healers/people for the treatment of different disorders. Conventional medicinal plants were mostly used for different diseases like diabetes, asthma, cough and colds, dysentery, inflammation, wound healing, skin diseases, ulcers, Toothache etc. The medicinal plants used by the traditional users of Bodla Block are arranged alphabetically, followed by their botanical name, local name, parts used and medicinal uses separately.