Medicinal Plants Used by the Tribes for Snakebite Treatment at Jhargram Area, West Bengal

Though the medical sciences have made enormous advances, plants are still considered as a potential source of drugs for treating various diseases worldwide.Plants are used extensively for the treatment of different health conditions with a high rate of recovery. The present study on ethnobotany was carried out to identify the plants and their parts that are used for the treatment of snakebite by the tribal population of Jhargram district. The study was conducted by taking interviews of the knowledgeable informants like tribal medical practitioners, elderly members of the tribal community and house-wives with structured questionnaire in the remote places of the district. The study investigated and listed 43 plants that are commonly used for snakebite treatment. Among them, herbs are dominated followed by trees, climbers, shrubs and grass. There are total 29 families, out of which 23 families were dicotyledons and 6 families belong to monocotyledons. This ethnobotanical study mainly emphasized on the documentation of those plants which are used for snakebite treatment and found it important for future use. The study may also influence other pharmacologists, ethno botanists and phytochemists for further extensive studies on medicinal plants used by tribal people of different parts of West Bengal.

@article{ipsita2026,
  author  = {Ipsita Banerjee1, Soumya Nandi2, Samiran Hota2, Sonali Ghosh3 and Annalakshmi Chatterjee*2},
  title   = {{Medicinal Plants Used by the Tribes for Snakebite Treatment at Jhargram Area, West Bengal}},
  journal = {Journal of Bioresearch},
  year    = {2026},
  volume  = {3},
  number  = {2},
  pages   = {10-19},
  doi     = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10798231},
}