Indigenous Health Care and Ethno-Medicine

Contents: Preface. 1. Ecology, disease patterns and indigenous healing aspects in Himalayan communities/A.K. Kapoor. 2. Indigenous health practices related to reproductive and child health problems among the Saharia of Rajasthan/Pramod Misra and A.K. Kapoor. 3. A study of traditional herbal medicines among Gond tribe of Noradehi Sanctuary, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India/Brajesh Sahu, Anjali Rawat, Arti Gupta and Amita Arjariya. 4. Some sacred ethno-medicinal plants from Noradehi Sanctuary, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India/Anjali Rawat, Arti Gupta, T.R. Sahu and Amita Arjariya. 5. Indigenous health care practices among the Beria women of Sagar District, Madhya Pradesh, India/A.K. Jain and A.N. Sharma. 6. Indigenous health care practices among the Kondh tribal communities of Orissa, India/G. Bulliyya, J.K. Naik and G. Mallick. 7. Custom and western medicine: the ethics of intervention/Robert J. Gregory and Janet E. Gregory. 8. Report on some ethno-medicinal plants used in gynaecological problems by tribal women of Sagar District, Madhya Pradesh, India/Arti Gupta, Anjali Rawat, T.R. Sahu and Rachana Saxena. 9. Mit the therapeutic power of exorcism: a semiological recuperation/Traian D. Stanciulescu. 10. Indigenous health care practices related to Terminalia Chebula among rural women of six agro-climatic zones of Northern Karnataka, India/Shobha Nagnur, Channamma N. and Geeta Channal. 11. Indigenous health care practices related to Trigonella Foenum-Graecum (Fenugreek) among the population of six agro-climatic zones of Northern Karnataka, India/Geeta Channal, Shobha Nagnur and Channamma N. 12. Indigenous health practices related to cough and cold among the population of six agro-climatic zones of Northern Karnataka, India/Channamma N., Shobha Nagnur and Geeta Channal. 13. Traditional medical practices among the rural areas of Kanker District/Dinesh Mishra, Rajesh Shukla and Moyna Chakravory. 14. Indigenous health care practices among the Irular tribal populations of Tamil Nadu, India/Shaik Abdul Azeez Saheb. 15. Indigenous health care practices of rural women in Andhra Pradesh/A. Mary Swarnalatha, P. Chandrakala and D. Tasneem Sulthana. 16. Kava: a drug with positive psychosocial effects/Robert J. Gregory. 17. Indigenous health care practices among the Gond tribe of Kesli Tehsil, Sagar District of Madhya Pradesh/Neeraj Jain, A.N. Sharma and Anumeha Shrivastava. 18. Indigenous birth care practices among Baigas of Baiga Chak, Dindori District, Madhya Pradesh/Neeta Nema and Rajesh K. Gautam. 19. Indigenous knowledge for management of dysentery, blood dysentery, vomiting and stomach worms among the Baigas of Samnapur Block of Dindori District, Madhya Pradesh, India/A.N. Sharma and Pankaj Dwivedi. 20. Indigenous magico-religious health care practices among Baigas of Central India/Preetam S. Chaudhary and Rajesh K. Gautam. 21. Indigenous practices related to dairy herd management among the population of six agro-climatic zones of Northern Karnataka, India/Shobha Nagnur, Geeta Channal and Channamma N. 22. Tribal health--an anthropological perspective: case study of Kamar, a primitive tribe of Raipur District, Chhattisgarh/Nilanjan Khatua. 23. Indigenous health practices: a case study among "The Juang" of Orissa/Zabita Acharya and Girish Bala Moharana. 24. A comparative study on indigenous health practices among the Nicobarese of Andaman and Nicobar Island and Tribes of Arunachal Pradesh/A.K. Gharami and A.N. Sharma. 25. Traditional medicine of Birhor primitive tribe of Chhattisgarh/Mitashree Mitra and Arti Brokar. Index. 

"This book is collection of 25 research papers/articles focused on different aspect indigenous health care practices among different population group of different part of India, Romania and Pacific regions like Australia, Polynesia and Melanesia. The ethno-medicine used among various populations for cure of different ailments are recorded and documented in many of the papers/articles included in the book. Beside that knowledge, attitude and practice related to different kind of health care is also highlighted. In various primitive groups the supernatural causes and practices are the part of health care. The impact of modernization, industrialization and globalization has both positive and negative impact on indigenous knowledge and many such practices are going to be extinct.

The book is a humble attempt in the direction of preservation or conservation of indigenous knowledge and practices. The book is multidisciplinary in nature; it would be supportive for researchers working in the same direction. Simultaneously, it would be helpful for academicians, policy planners, health administrators and pharmaceutical researches, medical practiceners, students of medicine, pharmacy, anthropology and sociology." (jacket)