‘Plants From Northeast India Utilize In Snakebite Treatment – An Ethnobotanical Review

Abstract

In this systematic article, authors have tried to compile information about medicinal plants of northeast region of India used for snakebites treatment. As a result of collection of the most desirable, influential, and advantageous plant species found in the surrounding environment during specific events is accountable to the native knowledge of plant species. India is a seventh largest country in world. In India, with a rich diversity of medicinal plants growing in different geographical and ecological conditions, more than 1500 species from advantaged plants species have been authenticated to have medicinal uses. Northeast India (officially North-eastern Region, NER) is both a geographic and political administrative division of India, which includes state as Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, and Sikkim (08 states). Snakes have fascinated people for millennia. Folklore and traditional herbal methods for treating snakebites include topical application of heated leaves or part crush or juice or paste. In this present review, a total of 87 species from 57 plant families have been found useful against snakebites, as reported by different ethnobotanical and ethnomedicinal investigations in India. This effort is an attempt to be the most all-inclusive review. Number of modern drugs formulations is now available because of keeping records of original knowledge of medicinal plants. The study of herbal antidotes in the management of snakebite is having considerable significance to society. Though modern therapy is more significant, but its availability is more concern