Ex-situ conservation of medicinal Plants and its therapeutic in mine impacted lands in dry tropical forests of Jharkhand, India

Abstract

Medicinal plant plays a crucial role in the socioeconomic development and maintaining the human health and culture. Naturally, plant-derivative drugs have an imperative position in both traditional and modern medicine. Jharkhand is rich in biodiversity of medicinal plants. The forest area covers about 30.29% of the total area of Jharkhand. The extensive use of such medicinal plants is nowadays being adopted by almost all the developing and developed countries as therapeutic purpose. It is used to heal various diseases and also prevents the ill effects of synthetic drugs. The main objectives of this article are to identify selected native medicinal properties found in the native forest of Jharkhand and maintain the plants under ex-situ conservation Park for socioeconomic development of the tribal which has been used for multipurpose curative applications and their value addition for different diseases. In the current article a total of 41medicinal plants have been selected for study and documented to their therapeutic use against various types of diseases frequently occurred in tribal dominating mining areas at coal capital of the country located at CSIR-CIMFR, Dhanbad in Jharkhand state of India.