• Selvaraj Rosemary Jenisha
• Pushpakaran Ananthavally Athira
• Rajaram Mary Sujin

Quantitative ethnobotanical studies are one of the methods used to document and compare the knowledge of plants held by different native and nonnative groups. Herbs are generally valued for virtues as food as well as medicine through a long process of trial and error; our four fathers were able to select hundreds of wild plant in their various localities for a specific use. The study focused on the documentation of medicinal plants used to treat various human diseases and to quantitatively analyze the data to identify some useful leads for further studies. Ethnobotanical data were collected by oral communication to local inhabitants of Arumanai village. A total of 108 taxa, distributed in 96 genera and 52 families were used as a source of medicine.Ethnomedicine data were analyzed using Use value (UV), Informant consensus factor (Fic), and Family use value (FUV). The information documented may be used as a base-line for further studies on semi-arid and airid pharmacologically important medicinal plants and fpr phytochemical investigations.

Ailments, medicinal plants, quantitative ethnobotany and use value

"Ethnobotanical Study of the Local Inhabitants of Arumanai village, Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India: a Quantitative Approach", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 10, page no.a726-a738, October-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2110091.pdf

"Ethnobotanical Study of the Local Inhabitants of Arumanai village, Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India: a Quantitative Approach", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 10, page no. ppa726-a738, October-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2110091.pdf