SEARCH FOR THE NOVEL AND ETHNIC POLYHERBAL FORMULATIONS FOR THE TREATMENT OF PSORIASIS IN CHHATTISGARH, INDIA

Abstract

Psoriasis is an autoimmune disorder that leads to scaling and inflammation of skin accompanying with pain, swelling, redness and heat. The percent prevalence of psoriasis in India is 0.44 – 2.2%. The present study enumerated the medicinal traditional knowledge currently in use by the indigenous people for curing Psoriasis. Methods of Martin (1995) were followed for ethnobotanical data collection and voucher specimen during field study. The role of traditional healers locally known as Baiga, as per the literature survey was included. The local names of the medicinal plants were recorded carefully along with plant parts used and polyherbal formulations.

The analysis of data revealed that 43 polyherbal formulations were used for the curing Psoriasis that included 39 plant species belonging to 30 families. The present research work is promising and might help in the discovery of potential therapeutic molecule(s) for the control and cure of Psoriasis.