An ethnomedicinal survey of Dhamrai sub-district in Dhaka district, Bangladesh.

Primary health-care service is provided to a substantial section of the population of Bangladesh by folk medicinal practitioners known as Kavirajes, who use medicinal plants for treatment of diverse ailments. Since the medicinal plants used by the Kavirajes can vary even between adjoining areas, it was the objective of the present study to conduct an ethnomedicinal survey among the Kavirajes of Dhamrai area, which is a subdistrict within Dhaka district, Bangladesh. The survey was conducted with the help of a semi-structured questionnaire and guided field-walk method where the Kavirajes pointed out various medicinal plants and described their uses. All plant specimens as pointed out by the Kavirajes were collected and identified at the Bangladesh National Herbarium. Information on a total…