ETHNO-MEDICO-BOTANICAL UTILITY OF DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE PLANT ASHOKA

The plant Ashoka (Saracaasoca Roxb.) is an endangered species in the flora which is very useful in different condition of the health of a mankind. But different source plants are used in the name of Ashoka in the rural area of Moodubidire. Different parts of Ashoka are also useful as medicine in various disorders. Hence a preliminary survey work on ethno-medical uses of Ashoka were conducted at Moodubidire Talluk in Karnataka State. It was found that the various source plants such as Saracaasoca Roxb., Humboldtia brunois Wall., Xylia xylocarpa Roxb., Polyalthia longifolia Sonn. etc. were used in the name of Ashoka. But Saracaasoca (Roxb). is being popu- lar and authentic source of Ashoka, different parts of parts of Ashoka are beneficial in the management of differ- ent diseases in different forms. The bark of Ashoka is said to be useful in the management of menorrhagia, the flowers in gastritis & piles, leaves in acne vulgaris, intestinal worms and stem in the management of Skin diseas- es. The complete documentation on the ethno-medico-botanical utility of different parts of Ashoka in the Moodu- bidire Range were done in the present study. Keywords: Ethno-medico-botanical study, Ashoka, Saracaasoca (Roxb.), Moodubidire

Ethno Botanical Study of Wild Medicinal Plants of Peerano Valley, District Malakand, Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa, Pakistan

The ethno medicinal study play a key role in the control of various disorders and provide a base for further study on scientific lines. The purpose of the survey was to observe the traditional medicinal plants and their uses for the various common disorders in Peerano Valley, district Malakand Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa, Pakistan. The study was carried out from March, 2015 to April, 2016 and collected the data from the local inhabitants through questionnaires, interviewed regarding the available medicinal plants. The total 35 plants are recorded as medicinal belonging to 31 families. The study showed that 20 plants species were herbs, 8 tress and 7 were shrubs. The common parts were leaf, fruit, and whole plant, which were used in greater numbers. The inhabitants used them for stomachache, fever, cough, healing of wounds, diuretic, antiseptics, hepatic disorders, diarrhea and digestive disorders. The survey aims to aware about valuable plants and to protect them from extinction. The old people are aware of the accurate knowledge of medicinal plants, it is needed to preserve this knowledge for the next generation.

Introduction to Section III

As outlined in the introduction to this volume, one of the characteristic qualities of Latin American science is its close and complex imbrication with politics in the region. Among other spaces, eighteenth-century criollo critiques of metropolitan political power in the Americas were also played out in the theater of science. This is evident, as Antonio Lafuente has demonstrated, in such examples as the botanical study carried out in Mexico between 1801 and 1804 by Mariano Mociño and Luis Montaña to test the validity of each plant’s medicinal qualities; this set of experiments became a platform on which local scientists contested the imposition of European methods and theories by the metropolis....

‘Here in India’: Nineteenth-Century British Women Navigating their Position in the Empire through Children's Literature

This article considers how the children's books written by two nineteenth-century female writers, Eliza Tabor and Mary Martha Sherwood, when they accompanied their husbands to India, enabled them to navigate this new environment and their position as respectable middle-class women while revealing how India was deemed a place where British childhood was impossible. Just as many women took up botanical study to legitimise their ‘otherwise transgressive presence in imperial spaces’ (McEwan 219), writing for children enabled others to engage with the masculine world of travelling and earning money without compromising their femininity. Addressing their work to children also seems to have helped both writers to deal with the absence of their own children: the Indian climate made it impossibly challenging for most British infants and children. In this way their writing gives expression to what might be termed a crisis of imperial motherhood. Underlying the texts is an anxiety relating to British settlement and an attempt to comprehend and control a place that threatened their maternal roles.