Maida leaf and Arna haldi-A potent ethnomedicine for bone fracture

A survey trip to collect the ethnomedicinal plant and document their medicinal uses by native tribal people. This survey area is one of the hot spot of plant diversity representing north western tarai forest of Uttar Pradesh. We collected about 55 plants of ethnomedicinal importance belonging to different families. The most astonishing scene was observed in Dudwa when our vehicles were stopped near Banke tal in Sonaripur forest range and our drivers started to dug something. They were not in a position to waste their time for conversations with us. They want to collect the material in maximum quantity, We asked them not to do so because it is an offensive act. Our driver later told that the rhizome which they have collected is locally known as Ama Haldi and since it has countless ethnomedicinal uses, we try to keep always in house in one way or other. The most important information we got was that Ama Haldi is very useful in bone fracture along with Maida leaf. Later on the same driver introduced us about the Maida plant. We were later confirmed by our guide Mr. Baddal Singh Rana who is a local Tharu tribe, that if the poultice of Maida leaf along with Ana haldi is tide over bone fracture after setting the same by local orthopedic healer and taken orally also, the pain and inflation is vanished and the fracture heals within a very short span of time. We later identified Meda or Maida as Litsea glutinosa (Lour.) CB (Lauraceae) and Ama Haldi as Curcuma amada Roxb., (Zingiberaceae). In addition to the healing power of Maida leaf and Ama Haldi in bone fracture both have countless other ethnomedicinal uses especially Ama Haldi.

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