Author(s):

Harish Kumar, Arun Kumar Khajuria and NS Bisht

Abstract: Urolithiasis, a chronic recurrent problem marked by the presence of calculi in the urinary system affecting all around the world’s population irrespect of gender and the use of phytoceramides as a curing weapon is in practice against urolithiasis since aeon. The present study attempts to enumerate ethnomedicinal notes on such plants from the interior areas of Pauri district of Uttarakhand, India, which are passed from generation to generation as an important medica heritage orally, but with the onslaught of modernization know restricted to some of the elderly persons of the communities and faces threat to disappear with them. Ethnomedicinal information was gathered for urolithiasis by direct interview. In present investigation a total 45 plants of 33 families were reported to be use by villager for curing urolithiasis. This valuable documentation of ethnomedicinal notes may use as alternative to develop some more reliable medicine for the proper management of the ailament and help to improve the life of humankind. Plant based phytoremedies are still in used as first line of treatment for urolithiasis in the era of modernization in present study areas. The study revealed of all plants used in ethnomedicinal preparations, some 11 are also used in standard classified system Ayurveda in preparations such as Neeri and Cyston. Further, pharmacological studies on plants other then standard 11 plant may provide some drug of interest of the treatment to chronic and recurrent problems.

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