Big Data Deliverables through Cross-Platform Interest-Based content discovery 

Abstract :

The present work was to identify and enumerate some of the plant species used for medicinal purposes by the indigenous people of Kanjamalai Hills, Salem district, Tamil Nadu, India. The study was conducted from January 2015 – September 2015. To collect the information, the informants were selected based on their knowledge of medicinal plants. A total of 33 plant species distributed in 30 genera belonged to 15 families, utilized to cure various ailments by indigenous people, were identified. Traditional healers were using these plants to cure beetle bite, snake bite, chest pain, dental ache, bone fracture, eczema, dysuria, wound healing, kidney stone, asthma and gynecological disorders. The present investigation revealed that medicinal plants still play a vital role in the primary health care of the people. This study offers a model for studying the relationship between plants and people and traditional remedies of great therapeutic importance and the value of using ethno botanical information to initiate drug discovery efforts.