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Ethnomedicinal Knowledge Among Nicobarese Tribes of Car ORIGINAL ARTICLE Ethnomedicinal Knowledge among Nicobarese Tribes of Car Nicobar Island of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India Santosh S Mane1, Chinmay Rath2, Bonthu Susmitha3, Sugriv K Gaur4, Joseph GV Ratna5, Narayanam Srikanth6, Ashish K Tripathi7, Mayur Y Kamble8 ABSTRACT Introduction: Car Nicobar is a separate island and an administrative headquarter of Nicobar district. It is 260 km (162 miles) away from Port Blair, i.e., Capital of Andaman and Nicobar [(A and N) Union Territory] having a geographical area of 126.9 km2, i.e., 49.0 sq miles. The Nicobar group of islands is inhabited by the two mongoloid group of tribes, viz., the Nicobarese and the Shompens. They are the sole aboriginals in these islands, who continue to sustain themselves with vigor and vitality and have been flourishing as a vibrant ethnic group. Total population of Car Nicobar is 17,841 including 9,735 males and 8,106 females. They get healthcare facilities through Bishop John Richardson (BJR) District Hospital and subcenters of A and N administration but mostly believe in their traditional remedies for various diseases. Objectives: Documentation of the day-to-day ethnomedicinal practices followed by the Nicobarese tribe of Car Nicobar Island for healing various common ailments. Materials and methods: An ethnomedicinal survey was carried out from July to August 2015 in 15 villages of Car Nicobar Islands of A and N Islands to gather the information on ethnomedicinal practices of Nicobarese tribe of Car Nicobar Island. Observations: During the survey 54 plant species belonging to 54 genera and 30 families which were used as herbal remedies by Nicobarese folk healer of Car Nicobar Islands in 29 common ailments were recorded. Conclusion: The present study, represents some interesting data on potential medicinal plants used by the tribes of Car Nicobar, and the lead obtained from these plants must be screened to determine their therapeutic and pharmacodynamic properties. Keywords: Car Nicobar, Folk healer, Herbal remedy, Nicobarese tribes. Journal of Drug Research in Ayurvedic Sciences (2020): 10.5005/jdras-10059-0088 INTRODUCTION 1Collaborative Research Center for Veterinary Ayurveda, Ludhiana, The Andaman and Nicobar (A and N) islands, popularly known as Punjab, India Bay Islands are 1200 km away from mainland India. The Car Nicobar 2,3,6,7Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences, New Delhi, comes under the Nicobar group of islands and is a separate island India and administrative headquarter of Nicobar district. It is 260 km 4Regional Ayurveda Research Institute Endocrinal Disorders, Jaipur, (162 miles) away from Port Blair the capital of these Islands. The Rajasthan, India Nicobar groups of islands are inhabited by the two Mongoloid 5Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia Laboratory, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, group of tribes, viz., the Nicobarese and the Shompens. Among India them, Nicobarese is the only aboriginal tribe of Car Nicobar Island 8Department of Botany, Botanical Survey of India, SRC, National who continues to sustain themselves with vigor and vitality and has Orchidarium and Experimental Garden, Yercaud, Tamil Nadu, India been flourishing as a vibrant ethnic group.1 Car Nicobar is a relatively 2 Corresponding Author: Santosh S Mane, Collaborative Research small island having a geographical area 126.9 km and which is a Center for Veterinary Ayurveda, Ludhiana, Punjab, India, Phone: +91 remarkably flat island covered with evergreen coconut plantation. 161-2414032, e-mail: [email protected] The climate of Car Nicobar Island is tropical; with 400 mm of annual 2 How to cite this article: Mane SS, Rath C, Susmitha B, et al. rainfall. The administration had provided permanent shelters to Ethnomedicinal Knowledge among Nicobarese Tribes of Car Nicobar all of them who had lost their houses due to the tsunami in 2004. Island of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. J Drug Res Ayurvedic Sci Apart from that, many essential services including drinking water, 2020;5(1):13–24. power supply, education, telecommunication, electricity services, Source of support: The authors are thankful to the Director General, 3 etc., are also being provided by them. The total population of Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences, New Delhi, for Car Nicobar is 17,841 including 9,735 males and 8,106 females and financial support and encouragement most of them are Christians and they speak Hindi and some speak Conflict of interest: None English, apart from their mother tongue.4 The healthcare facilities are provided by BJR District Hospital and other subcenters of Car Nicobar. However, most of the Nicobarese people are still having a established at Malacca village, Car Nicobar in 1984. However, prior strong belief in their traditional remedies for numerous diseases. to that medicobotanical exploration was conducted by the CCRAS The Ayurveda Tribal Healthcare Research Project, a unit of the scientists in 1975 and 1980.5 Later on, a monograph on medicinal Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences (CCRAS) was plants was published in 1988.6 Apart from that, many other works © The Author(s). 2020 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and non-commercial reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. Ethnomedicinal Knowledge among Nicobarese Tribes of Car Nicobar Island of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India on ethnobotany was conducted and published by the scientists of prepared and tentative identification was carried out with the help different disciplines from the A and N islands.7–17 But most of them of the floras.20,21 Final identification was carried out at the Regional are limited to the plant species and their uses in a particular disease Research Centre of Ayurveda, Port Blair, by matching the samples and very few works include extensive information on individual from the Regional Centre of Botanical Survey of India, Port Blair. All folklore claims.18,19 the plants were processed by following the standard procedure.22 The obtained data were analyzed and it is presented with the MATERiaLS AND METHODS disease condition and therapeutic use of plant(s) including the For survey of tribal villages of the Car Nicobar Island, prior permission part used, the method of therapeutic preparation, and the route from competent authority was obtained and then entire 15 villages of administration (Table 1 and Figs 2 to 4). Whereas family-wise (Perka, Kakana, Tamaloo, Mus, Minyuk, Big Lapathy, Small Lapathy, distribution of plant species along with their Sanskrit name, local Arong, Sawai, Mus, Kimois, Tapoiming, Kinmai, Teetop, and Chukchuka) name, use of frequency, percentage, and mention in various systems were surveyed by a team of an Ayurvedic physician, botanist, and of medicine are listed in Table 2. other field staff from July to August 2015 (Fig. 1). In this survey, 20 Nicobarese healers were interviewed and the respective forest areas were visited to collect the plant specimens used as folk medicine. OBSERVATIONS Photographs of plants and their location with global positioning The plants were identified by the same local nomenclature or dialect system were recorded. Detailed information about the method throughout the survey and dissimilar dialects for very few plants. of drug preparation and administration was also recorded in a Most of the healers reported the collection of the plant materials structured format developed by the CCRAS. Initially, field notes were before the sunrise. They generally use an instrument called as Sanak Fig. 1: Surveyed forest area of Car Nicobar Island (Source: https://www.google.co.in/search?q=Map+of+Car+Nicobar&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source =univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjUnPGggd7VAhWIL48KHXLdDBoQsAQIKA#imgrc=xvrT0Au00jXNqM:) 14 Journal of Drug Research in Ayurvedic Sciences, Volume 5 Issue 1 (January–March 2020) Ethnomedicinal Knowledge among Nicobarese Tribes of Car Nicobar Island of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India Table 1: Plant species used by traditional folk healers of Car Nicobar for various ailments S. no Name of the ailment Botanical name of the plant used Therapeutic use 1 Ajirna (indigestion) • Vernonia patula (Aiton.) Merill. Oral administration of 10 mL of leaf juice twice a day for 3 days. 2 Aruchi (tastelessness) • Vernonia patula (Aiton.) Merill. One teaspoon of leaf juice is given internally in the morning for 3 days. • Melastoma malabathricum L. 3 Ashmari (urolithiasis) 1 • Buchanania platyneura Kurz. 500 mL water added to leaf paste and kept for 10–15 minutes so that it converts into a thick jelly and its five teaspoon are given orally once a day for 3 days. Ashmari 2 • Musa paradisiaca L. 10–15 mL leaf juice added in 1 L of water is given in early morning at an empty stomach for 3 days. • Urena lobata L. • Claoxylon indicum Hassk. 4 Asthi-bhanga (bone fracture) 1 • Morinda citrifolia L. The leaf paste of said plants is added to coconut oil and by boiling it medicated oil is prepared and it is used for local application for 21 days. • Ricinus communis L. • Senna occidentalis (L.) Link. • Tabernaemontana divaricata (L.) R.Br. • Alstonia macrophylla G.Don. • Ipomoea pes-carpae (L.) R. Br. 5 Atisara (diarrhea) 1 • Argyreia championii Benth. 10–20 mL of leaf juice mixed in 1 L of water and taken orally thrice a day for 3 days. 6 Bala Jwara (fever in children) 1 • Sida acuta Burm.f. Chopped leaves are mixed into around 10 L of boiled water and then on desirable cooling (lukewarm), it is used to take bath. Generally, such medicated water is used for 3–5 days to take a bath.
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