Floristic Survey and Evaluation of some Ethnomedicinal Plants of Southern Odisha for Urogenital Disorders

Abstract

Herbal remedies have always taken a lead in Indian medicinal system for a newlinewide range of common and complicated medical disorders affecting both humans newlineand animals. However, the therapeutic potential of age-old Indian herbal remedies, newlinepromoting the indigenous health care system needs immediate validation through newlineextensive scientific studies. These validations supplement the existing pharmaceutics newlineas well as promote the government and aborigines to conserve medicinal plants newlinethrough both in situ as well as ex-situ strategies. The biodiversity-rich southern newlineOdisha being ladened with scientifically unexplored medicinal flora has a multifaceted newlinetherapeutic scope against different health ailments. Urogenital disorders newlineoften remained the most common and troubling issues, especially in women. newlineAlthough, they are generally not life-threatening, they undoubtedly compromise the newlineoverall well-being and general health status of any individual and herbal remedies newlinecan be most preferred and accessible natural and safe medicaments in such newlinescenarios. Further, there is a great scope for investigating therapeutic potential of the newlineunderutilised and uncharted flora of southern Odisha against some of the urogenital newlineailments. Hence, it prompted us to undertake this present investigation to unravel the newlineprotective and curative potentials of some of the ethnomedicinal herbs against newlineurogenital disorders. newlineMethods: newlineIn the present study, six sample sites of southern Odisha were surveyed for newlinetheir floristic composition and different tribal populated areas were visited to newlinedocument the ethnomedicinal uses of different plants and their parts for treating newlinedifferent urological and reproductive system related problems. From our survey, the newlineleast explored 11 plant parts were selected for their scientific validation through newlinephytochemical analysis and antibacterial assays using multiple methods against the newlineclinical isolates of Enterococcus faecalis, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas newlineaeruginosa, Proteus vulgaris, and Staphylococcus aureus. The methanolic plant newline