Traditional Uses of Medicinal Plants in Polonnaruwa District in North Central Province of Sri Lanka.

ABSTRACT: Sri Lanka harbors over 3000 plant species, and most of these plants have been of immense importance in the traditional systems of medicine in the country. Although there is a rich reserve of indigenous knowledge on medicinal plants, in-depth studies have not been pursued yet to compile the ethnoflora with traditional medicinal applications for the scientific community. Thus, as a continuation of our ethnobotanical inventory work in different regions in the country, the present study was carried out in one of the administrative districts in the North Central area of Sri Lanka known as Polonnaruwa district. The information on the significance of medicinal plants as curative and preventive agents of diseases was collected through semistructured and open-ended interviews from 284 volunteers wh

SUBMITTER: Napagoda MT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6558606 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature