Abstract

A checklist of the medicinal plants of the Kerala forests was prepared from Ayurvedic texts and floras; naturalized exotics frequent in plantations and forest clearings are included. Information included under each species is: local names, distribution, description, properties, uses, and other data such as soil requirements. This was compiled from a study of collected live specimens, herbarium specimens, and raw drug materials, and from Ayurvedic texts and practitioners, and tribal people. The species are arranged systematically by family in alphabetic sequence