title: Folk medicine of the irulas of Coimbatore forests.
abstract: This paper presents an account of 25 species used by the Irulas of Coimbatore district, Tamil Nadu, as medicinal plants. In addition to scientific name and uses, local name are also given, Medicinal plants and uses hitherto unreported for this tribe alone are given in this paper.
authors.affiliation: Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and natural History, Coimbatore - 641 010, India.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Balasubramanian
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rajasekaran
authors.forename: S N
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Prasad