• Pushpa Salo Linda

Ranchi district is rich in forest wealth and Ethnic communities. Each ethnic community maintains a Traditional Wealth Care System on local floras. Despite on modern civilization, the tribal still dependent on the ancient method of treatment and herb of ethnic value which they find easily and think most effective and convenient. There are many ethnobotanical as well as ethnomedicinal plants which are used by traditional societies for the ailment of different types of diseases. Some of them are Boerhavia diffusa-Punarnava, Adhatoda vasica – Vasak, Aegle marmelos – Bael, Ricinus communis – Arandi vitex negund – Sindwar, Madhuka langifolia – Mahua, Pangamia pinnata – Karanj, Dchleichera oleose – Kusum, Terminalia arjuna, T. Behera, T. chebula – Harra, Bombox ceiba – Shimal, Syzgium cumini- Jamun, Bambura anrudinacea – Bamboo, Mangifera indica- Aam etc. some plants are used in Social Forestry Programmes as agro-forestry and road side plantation. For the conservation of traditional knowledge of their health benefit, they try to conserve, protect the ethanomedicinal plants, around them. Their religious practices also help in its conservation of biodiversity.

Ethnomedicinal plants, religious practices, agro-forestry, Socio-religious.

"STUDY ON ETHONEMEDICINAL PLANTS OF RANCHI DISTRICT, JHARKHAND, INDIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.2, Issue 3, page no.667-670, March-2015, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1701943.pdf

"STUDY ON ETHONEMEDICINAL PLANTS OF RANCHI DISTRICT, JHARKHAND, INDIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.2, Issue 3, page no. pp667-670, March-2015, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1701943.pdf