Ethnomedicinal plants used for wound healing purposes by Malayali tribes of Kalrayan hills, Salem Distrct, Tamil Nadu, India.

Ethnobotanical study plays an important role in the field of herbal research and enumeration of new medicinal plants. The tribal communities are dependent on the forest vegetation and utilize them for medicinal, non-medicinal, socio-cultural and religious purposes in their day-to-day life. The present paper documents the ethnomedicinal knowledge of Malayali tribes of Kalrayan hills on wound healing purposes only. Periodical field visits were made to collect the ethnomedicinal information on the plants used for wound healing purposes through personal interviews among the elders, village heads and traditional healers with the help of standardized questionnaires and discussions with them. Use of 72 plant species from 66 genera belonging to 43 families has been recorded along with the parts used, mode of preparation, mode of administration and their dosage. These plants are used in the form of paste, powder, juice, etc., for the treatment. In the present study, we observed that the Malayali tribes of Kalrayan hills are well experienced in the administration of local herbs for the treatment of wounds and other related injuries.