Some ethnomedicines used by the Tai Ahom of Dibrugarh district, Assam, India.

It is well known fact that from the time immemorial, large number of plant species were used by the mankind for the treatment of different kind of diseases. The ethno-medico-botanical folklore of Tai Ahom of Dibrugarh district of Assam is very rich. An attempt has been made to study ethnomedicines used by the Tai Ahom people of the study areas for the treatment of 17 commonly occurring diseases like abdominal pain, abscess, cough, cut-injury, diarrhoea, dysentery, epilepsy, epitaxis, fracture, gastric, inflammation, loosening of teeth, loss of appetite, migraine, sleeplessness, sour in mouth, whooping cough and worms. A total number of 24 medicinally important plant species are reported in this paper.