Traditional remedies used by migrant and local people in fever by plant species of Tarai region of Kumaun, Uttarakhand

Abstract

<span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;font-family:" times="" new="" roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";="" mso-bidi-font-family:"times="" roman";mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:="" en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"="" lang="EN-US">There are a number of medicinal herbs that have a long history of use as a natural treatment for fever, as well as traditional herbal combinations that are pleasant to the taste and provide a number of benefits when suffering from fever and chills. In holistic tradition, herbs are not used to reduce fever unless there is also some positive benefit in treating the infection or inflammation that is causing the fever. Many practitioners see fever as the body’s natural response to a pathogen. Fever has been shown to stimulate immune system production of antibodies and may also enhance the body’s elimination of toxins. If a fever is suppressed, the individual loses the advantages from the body’s natural defense system, and the illness may last longer. Therefore, herbalists try to use herbs that support the immune system and enhance other cleansing processes of the body. The present study had been conducted in tarai region in the year 2008 to 2011 in three sites and eight communities. Total 29 plant species were identified to cure fever. These plant species were used in different type of fever as in typhoid, tertian and in malarial fever. <i>Datura alba, Allium cepa, Capscicum annum</i> were reported first time from the study area.</span>