title: Ethnomedicinal studies on plants used by Yanadi tribe of Chandragiri reserve forest area, Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh, India.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Ethnomedicinal studies on medicinal plants used by Yanadi tribe of Chandragiri reserve forest area are documented during the period of 2014-2015. The study is mainly focused on medicinal importance of plants used by Yanadi tribe to treat various ailments.
  
  
  METHODS
  The information collected on treated ailments, part used, preparation, combination, and addition of ingredients to prepare herbal medicines with the help of standard questionnaire.
  
  
  RESULTS
  During the study, 53 types of ailments were treated using 48 medicinal plants belongs to 26 families were documented. Among the medicinal plants, shrubs (15) were most using life form of plants for the preparation of herbal medicines. Leaf part (40%), paste form (33%), and oral administration (63%) of herbal medicines were most preferable. The documented ethnomedicinal importance of this tribe was cross-checked with Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical database shows most of the plants were correlated with this database.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There is no record of traditional medicinal knowledge of these villages so far, hence the present study is aimed to document the information on medicinal plants used by Yanadi tribe in Chandragiri reserve forest area. The correlation of ethnomedicinal uses with Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical database clearly indicates the high medicinal significance of claimed data of this Yanadi tribe.
authors.affiliation: Department of Botany, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Nataru
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Savithramma
authors.affiliation: Department of Botany, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Pulicherla
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Yugandhar
authors.affiliation: Department of Botany, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Koya Siva
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Prasad
authors.affiliation: Department of Botany, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Sade
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ankanna
authors.affiliation: Department of Botany, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Kummara Madhava
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Chetty
keywords: Chandragiri reserve forest; Dr. Dukes ethnobotanical database; Ethnomedicinal studies; Yanadi tribe