Experiment code 20.4.3.26
Experiment Title Documentation and Quantitative analysis of plants used for Oral Health Care by local inhabitants of Dharampur and Dangs Forests.
Research Type Departmental Research
Experiment Background Traditional herbal medicine in India has strong cultural and religious foundations. It manifests in different ways among indigenous groups in their ritual or ceremonial practices, spiritual practices, and self-healing practices. Indigenous communities have utilized this traditional botanical knowledge for centuries to cure different diseases. In India, plants have been used as natural tooth brush and for curing various dental ailments since long. In ancient classical Ayurvedic texts, many of such plants and remedies are described with their medicinal properties and uses for overall oral care (Khare, 2017). We aim to document data on such plants that are used by local inhabitants for oral health care, as no such detailed information is compiled and documented from the region of South Gujarat, which is equally bestowed with varieties of ethnomedicinal plants across different ecosystems.
Experiment Group Forestry
Unit Type (02)EDUCATION UNIT
Unit (61)COLLEGE OF FORESTRY (NAU, NAVSARI)
Department (2362)FOREST PRODUCTS UTILIZATION, COF, NAU, NAVSARI
BudgetHead (352/12053/00)352/01/REG/04199
Objective
  1. To know the Profilic information of respondent tribal healers.
  2. Documentation of plants used for oral health care by local people of Dharampur and Dangs forests.
  3. To perform Quantitative analysis using ethnomedicinal indices
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Location Unit Type (02)EDUCATION UNIT
Location Unit (61)COLLEGE OF FORESTRY (NAU, NAVSARI)
Location Department (2362)FOREST PRODUCTS UTILIZATION, COF, NAU, NAVSARI
Plot No NA
PI Name (NAU-EMP-2010-000865)BIMAL SATISHBHAI DESAI
PI Email bimal_desai@nau.in
PI Mobile 9374065646
Year of Approval 2024
Commencement Year 2024
Completion Year 2027
Design of Experiment

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detials of study area

For the study, 20 villages (10 each from Dharampur and Dangs) will be selected with 15 respondents in each village. The lists of villages are given here under. Total respondents will be 300. Along with this, local markets as well as tribal healers will be visited for collecting information on plants used for dental problems.

Selected villages for study

Rajpuri-Jangal

Dharampur

Bildha

Dharampur

Nani-Korvad

Dharampur

Moti-Korvad

Dharampur

Aavdha

Dharampur

Pandavkhadak

Dharampur

Sadadvera

Dharampur

Vaghvad (Waghval)

Dharampur

Pindval

Dharampur

Bilpudi

Dharampur

Waghai

South Dangs

Sivarimad

South Dangs

Gira dabdhar

South Dangs

Sakadpatal

South Dangs

Jamalapada

South Dangs

Samgahan

South Dangs

Galkund

South Dangs

Madga

South Dangs

Kalibel

South Dangs

Piplaidevi

South Dangs

Crop Spacing (cm x cm)

NA

Gross Plot (m x m) NA
Net Plot (m x m) NA
Total Experiment Area (m2) NA
Plot History Last Three Year

NA

Initial Soil Sample Analysis Report

NA

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Layout Plan

NA

Sampling procedure will be followed through survey

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Treatment

Data will be collected on uses of plant as per proforma.

Quantitative Ethnobotanical tools for data analysis (Leontii,2022) and Kushawa et al., (2018)

Use Value (uv) – Values between 0 – 4.

Percentage of respondents who have knowledge regarding the use of species (PRK) – in percentage (%)

Family Use Values (fuvs) - Values between 0 – 5.

Informant agreement remedies (iar) – Values not defined

Relative frequency of citation (rfc) - Values between 0 – 1

Consensus value for plant part (cpp) - Values between 0 – 4

Informant consensus factor (fic) - Values between 0 – 1

Relative importance of species (RI) – Values not defined

 

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(NAU-EMP-2010-000865) BIMAL SATISHBHAI DESAI bimal_desai@nau.in 9374065646 19-02-2025
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(NAU-EMP-2007-000957) SUMANKUMAR SHIVNATH JHA sumanjha@nau.in 9725018790 1/8/2024
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(NAU-EMP-2010-000967) VIJAYKUMAR MANILAL PRAJAPATI vmprajapati@nau.in 9429251017 1/8/2024
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(NAU-EMP-2010-000958) VIPULKUMAR BHARATBHAI PATEL vipulbiotech@nau.in 9825992766 1/8/2024
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