Traditional and Pharmacological Properties of Anti-Malarial Plant Species of Jharkhand, India
Nuzhat Jahan
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Department of Zoology, Rabindranath Tagore University, Bhopal, M.P., India.
Pragya Shrivastava
Department of Zoology, Rabindranath Tagore University, Bhopal, M.P., India.
Sakeelur Rahman
Prakriti Bachao Foundation, Ranchi, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Malaria is one of the major vector-borne diseases in Jharkhand and other states of India with significant morbidity and mortality. The challenge of drug resistance to anti-malarial medicines has been a major obstacle controlling malarial disease. The National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme has formulated new treatment guidelines for malaria that recommend phytochemical constituent artemisinin based combination therapy as the first-line drugs for P.falciparum malaria. The demand of plant based anti malarial drugs has been increased in the world. Therefore, it is important to find out effective plant species which are traditionally used by the tribal and rural people since time immemorial. The present review work aims to identify plants with Anti-malarial properties which were used by the tribal and local communities by applying prevalent traditional knowledge system.
Keywords: Anti-malarial plants, traditional, pharmacological uses, vector borne disease, Jharkhand