Abstract

EXISTENCE AND SURVEY OF MEDICINAL PLANTS OF THIRU PALANI MURUGAN KOVIL, ASIKULAM, VAVUNIYA DISTRICT, NORTHERN PROVINCE, SRI LANKA

S. R. Pholtan Rajeev.*

Abstract

Vavuniya district have several medicinal plants, it helped to develop the traditional knowledge and folk medicine to cure various diseases. This knowledge is used by pharmaceutical agents, suppliers and Phytochemistry researchers to exploit the rich source in the form of raw drugs. An ethno botanical survey of Vavuniya District was made to collect the information from traditional practitioners with the use of medicinal plants of Vavuniya District of Sri Lanka. As this survey About 33 families and 65 plants within 280 medicinal valued plants largely used by the traditional practitioners and local peoples of Vavuniya District have been enumerated in this paper. These plants contain important phytochemicals and are employed in the various ailments. The main aim of this work is to survey, document the existence of medicinal plants of Asikulam area, Vavuniya District for the benefit of mankind and further investigation.

Keywords: Medicinal plants, Vavuniya district, Traditional practitioner.