Ethnobotanical Survey of Folklore medicinal Plants from Dimapur District of Nagaland, India

An Ethnobotanical (EBot) survey was undertaken to collect information from local people about the use of medicinal plants (MPs) in Dimapur district of Nagaland, and local people use certain folklore medicinal plants for the treatment of various ailments and diseases. The aboriginal Naga tribes have a rich knowledge, based on their natural resources, of indigenous folk medicine. Their beliefs and folk practices are based on past experience with various diseases and their cures. The significant of the study is that certain plants are believed to have multi-chemical properties in healing and curing as it differs from other neighbouring communities. This paper highlights the ethnomedicinal (EMed) uses of 63 different species of plants used by the different tribe