Title

Authors

Affiliation

PG & Research Department of Zoology and Biotechnology, Lady Doak College, Madurai.

Email

ldcmadurai.btisnet@nic.in; *Corresponding author

Article Type

Database

Date

Received April 16, 2012; Accepted April 16, 2012; Published April 30, 2012

Tribal peoples are endowed with enriched traditional wisdom to use available nature resources around them. They are well versed in the usage of plant for treating various diseases. They have used powder or extract or paste form of the plant parts such as root, shoot, whole plant, fruits and leaves etc. The recipe known by the tribal people was passed on only to their family members and community through mouth to mouth practice. Hence, the knowledge is confined to particular people alone. It is always expedient to store information in the database, so that it will be accessible by everyone from everywhere. To achieve this, MEDDB has been developed, which stores the details of 110 plant species that are commonly used by tribes for fever, asthma, cold, cough, diabetes, diarrhea, dysentery, eye infections, stomach ache, wounds and snake bite. The details of each plant were collected from the literature and through web search to give comprehensive and exhaustive information. Each plant entry is compiled under the sub-headings viz., common name, classification, physical characteristics, medicinal uses, active constituents, and references.

Availability

http://www.ladydoakcollege.edu.in/meddb/home.html

Keywords

Traditional medicine, Active constituents, Ethnomedicine, HTML, database, JPEG.

Citation

Mary et al. Bioinformation 8(8): 391-393 (2012)
 

Edited by

P Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.