Resumo
An ethnomedicinal plants survey was carried out in Kurunthamalai Hill, Metuppalayam Taluk, Coimbatore District, Tamil Nadu, India. Plants are the significant source of therapeutic drugs. It plays important role in human’s survival. In India above 3,000 plants for their medicinal value, is generally estimated that over 6,000 plants in India are in use in traditional, folk and herbal medicine, representing about 75% of the medicinal needs of the Third World countries. The present study investigated that 70 plants belonging to 39 families. In these families leguminosae held the dominant position.
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