Tribal Ethno-Medicine and Health Care Practices
Contents: Acknowledgements. Preface. 1. Tribal culture and life style affecting diseases and longevity in India: Perspectives on the problems and interventions needed/Kuttan Mahadevan, M. Ubaidullah and V.K. Ravindra Kumar. 2. The relevance of ethno-medicine and health care practices among the Yerukula and Chenchu tribes of Nallamala forest range in Andhra Pradesh/K. Viswanadha Reddy, J. Gangadhar, D.K. Manoj, M. Kranthi Kumar and M. Ramesh. 3. Epidemiological transitions and the tribal health Eastern Ghats/K.E. Rajpramukh. 4. Ethno-medicine and its relevance for tribes in India/N. Ningaiah. 5. Ethno medical observations and the six primitive tribes in the Nilgiri Hills of South India/M. Sethuraman, S. Rajan, V. Thirumurugan, S. Badami, Pulok K. Mukherjee. 6. Pediatric health care practices in a primitive tribe of North-Coastal Andhra Pradesh, India/S. Narahari and A.B. Subhasini. 7. The relevance of herbal medicines and healing through shamanism and mother Goddess cult among the Irular of Nroth and South Arcot districts of Tamil Nadu/S.A.A. Saheb. 8. Nutritional status of Adiandhara women, a scheduled tribe of Chittoor District Andhra Pradesh, India/A.B. Srilatha, A.B. Subhashini and T. Vijaya. 9. Nannari Sharbath in the context of multinational soft drink: the prospectus of an indigenously developed health potion by the Yanadis in Talakona Region/T. Babji Reddy, V. Gangadharam and G. Ravi Kumar. 10. Morbidity and health care -- a comparison of scheduled tribes and other caste groups -- NFHS-3/D. Sai Sujatha and G. Brahmananda Reddy. 11. A study on health awareness among scheduled tribe neo-literates/T. Kumaraswamy, R.B. Sathyavathi and V. Janardhana Rao. 12. Health and development programmes among tribals of Chintapalli Mandal Vishakapathanam District/Marri. Padmaja and P. Sudhakara Reddy. 13. Impact of education on ethno-medicine and health care practices among the tribal people of India/B. Ramachandra Reddy, N. Amareswaran and C. Manchala. 14. Health problems of aged people in India --an analysis/T. Chandra Sekarayya, P. Ganesh and P.S. Reddy. 15. Health problems of tribal women: an overview/R.K. Anaradha and P. Sindhuja. 16. Ethnography techniques and their application for dietary assessment of the community/K. Manjula and T.V. Padmavathi. 17. Strategy to improver micronutrient malnutrition in adolescent girls/K.V. Sucharitha and A. Krishna Priya. 18. Desamma -- a presiding deity on the eye diseases in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh/K. Viswanadha Reddy, J. Gangadhar, M. Kranthi Kumar, K. Bhargavi and K.C. Tarachand. 19. Ayurveda - the Indian traditional medicine/G. Sudha, K.N. Reddu and K. Latha. 20. Folk medicinal plants among the tribal of Kuppam, Chittoor District, A.P./S. Chinna Redaiah. 21. Bio-technological approaches for enhancing the bio-active compounds of some important medicinal plants used in health care practices/T. Vijaya, K. Chandra Mouli, A.B. Subhashini, S. Dattatraya Rao and A.B. Srilata. 22. Traditional medicine -- healing practitioner/M. Vijayakumar Reddy. 23. Indigenous knowledge for plant species diversity: a case study of the Lambades in coastal area, Andhra Pradesh/R. Uttama Reddy. 24. A study on natural herbal therapeutic Lehyam with Sundakai [Solanum Torvum]/Leelavathi M., Maheswarlu M., Anitha K., K. Bhargavi. 25. Anthropometric profiles and nutrient intakes of tribal adolescent girls and young women in Kurnool Dist./A.B. Subhashini, G. Nagamani and A.B. Srilatha. 26. A review on health benefits and industrial uses of whey/Maheswarlu, Leelavathi, M. and K. Bhargavi.
The Present Volume contains only Twenty six articles on Tribal Ethno- medicine and Health Care Practices", Presented at the UGC National Seminar organized at Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati and later revised.
The articles in clued Socio - Cultural dimensions of Tribal Health, Ethno-Medicine and Health care Practices including Folk therapists, shamans and aged people, Role and Impact of other systems of medicine on Ethno-medicine and Health care Practices, Nutritional status and physical growth strategies for health care planning and development for the tribal people and their areas. The views expressed by the contributors are of great significance in the national interest in suggesting the various measures and alternative strategies for Tribal Health and development in the light of Socio-economic and cultural attitudes and contains in the back drop of ecology of the Indian tribes.
The book will of quite useful to the students and researchers in the field of anthropology, Ayurveda, population studies, home science, sociology, botany, history, bio technology etc.
The Present Volume contains only Twenty six articles on Tribal Ethno- medicine and Health Care Practices", Presented at the UGC National Seminar organized at Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati and later revised.
The articles in clued Socio - Cultural dimensions of Tribal Health, Ethno-Medicine and Health care Practices including Folk therapists, shamans and aged people, Role and Impact of other systems of medicine on Ethno-medicine and Health care Practices, Nutritional status and physical growth strategies for health care planning and development for the tribal people and their areas. The views expressed by the contributors are of great significance in the national interest in suggesting the various measures and alternative strategies for Tribal Health and development in the light of Socio-economic and cultural attitudes and contains in the back drop of ecology of the Indian tribes.
The book will of quite useful to the students and researchers in the field of anthropology, Ayurveda, population studies, home science, sociology, botany, history, bio technology etc.
