Murugesan Suresh, Kokkaiah Irulandi, Vadivel Siva and Palanichamy Mehalingam

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Research Department of Botany, V.H.N.Senthikumara Nadar College (Autonomous), Virudhunagar

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Abstract

The aim of present study to investigated medicinal plants and documented the medicinal uses. The medicinal purpose information collected from traditional healers of Southern Western Ghats of Virudhunagar district, Tamil Nadu, India.. The present study reported 51 medicinal plants belonging to 37 families.  In this study most dominant families were Fabaceae, Liliaceae and Lamiaceae.  Leaves and roots were the most frequently used plant part for treatment diseases by traditional healers. The study was considered useful information offer to ethnomedicinal researcher, pharmaceutical industries and developing the conservation of important medicinal plants. 

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