https://scienztech.org/index.php/ijprls/issue/feed International Journal of Pharmaceutical Research and Life Sciences 2023-11-27T14:11:36+00:00 Open Journal Systems <p><strong>FOCUS AND SCOPE</strong></p> <p>This journal involves basic clinical and non-clinical studies related to pharmaceutical research and applied life sciences. This journal mainly focuses on clinical and non-clinical articles related to the studies of implication of pharmaceutical sciences and their impact on pharmacognosy, pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmaceutical analysis, pharmaceutics, clinical pharmacy, biological sciences, pharmacy practice, pharmaceutical sciences, pharmacology, physiology, biology and disease management.</p> <p>Preference will be given to the articles containing clinical interests and their implications that apply pharmaceutical research and life sciences.</p> https://scienztech.org/index.php/ijprls/article/view/1502 Medicinal plants used for various health issues by rural inhabitant of Wayanad forest division-Kerala, India - A statistical analysis 2023-11-27T14:11:36+00:00 Venkatesan K venkat050373@gmail.com Mohd Asif venkat050373@gmail.com Mokhtar Alam venkat050373@gmail.com Kabiruddin Ahmed venkat050373@gmail.com R. Murugeswaran venkat050373@gmail.com <p>Native peoples of Wayanad use a wide range of plants medicinally. Many of these Plants have profound meaning to their users. Quantitative ethnobotany deals with the computation and importance of plants and vegetation to people. It helps quantification of qualitative data in biological and social sciences. The traditional source of medicinal plants is an important way for daily curative uses in the rural area. A survey was carried out among the tribes of Wayanad forest division, Wayanad district, Kerala India. The present study identified traditionally using 64 species of ethnomedicinal plants distributed in 61 genera belonging to 42 families to treat various diseases. Moreover, among the plant habit wise analyzed there are 16 herbs, 9 shrubs, 10 Climbing shrubs, 25 trees, 3 Small trees and 1 Twiner. The status of plants was analyzed and recorded as 44 rare, 14 Common, 3 extinct, each one in Endangered, Least common and sporadic in this study area. In this communication, the information got from the rural inhabitants was compared with the already existing literature. The data were collected randomly from tribal and healers of 149 informants and the data were statistically analyzed by using suitable statistical tools such as Use Value (UV), Informant Consensus Factor (ICF), Fidelity Value (FL) and various ranking methods.Top of Form</p> 2023-11-27T14:08:31+00:00 Copyright (c) 2023 International Journal of Pharmaceutical Research and Life Sciences