Ethnobotanical survey of traditional medicine practice to treat digestive disorders of gurugram district, Haryana, India

An ethnobotanical study was carried out from August 2015 to October 2016 for documentation of ethnobotanical knowledge of rural people of Gurugram district about the digestive disorders by using wild plants. For this purpose, many surveys of this district has been conducted for collecting the ethnobotanical data during the year 2015-2016. Four surveys were carried out in throughout the area for collecting traditional uses of plants, local name, plant parts used and medicinal value. Total 126 species of flowering plants were documented during the ethnobotanical field survey, out of which 18 species were documented for digestive disorders. These species belonged to 17 genera and 16 families. Among all families, Leguminosae and Solanaceae (2 genera and 2 species each) are the more dominant families and 14 families were represented by single genera and single species and most commonly used plant parts are leaves fruits 33.33%, 27.77%, roots 22.22%, whole plants 16.66%, bark 11.12%, flowers 5.55%. Plants of different habits are herbs 61.55%, shrub 5.55%, and trees 33.33%. They are used by the rural peoples and traditional healers for the treatment of various digestive disorders.