Biochemical Evaluation and Ethnomedicinal Uses of Wild Plants in Eastern Himalayas of Arunachal Pradesh, India

Abstract

The current study sought to assess and validate the relationship between nutritional and antioxidant properties and ethnomedicinal uses of four commonly used wild plants in Arunachal Pradesh,  namely Clerodendrum colebrookianum (Oyin), Pouzolzia bennettianum (Oyik), Zanthoxylum rhetsa (Onyor), Mussaenda glabra (Taksap). According to the findings, carbohydrate and starch content were highest in M. glabra (169.5 + 0.2 \(\mu\)g/ml) and Z. rhetsa (13.6 + 0.2 \(\mu\)g/ml) respectively. Protein, phenol and ascorbic acid were recorded highest in C. colebrookianum (367.0 + 0.3 \(\mu\)g/ml), (250.0 + 0.3 \(\mu\)g/ml) and (66.6 + 0.3 mg/100g) respectively. P. bennettiana had the highest percent DPPH activity (91.4 +0.6 percent). The nutritional and antioxidant properties of these wild plants, as well as their ethnomedicinal uses by indigenous communities, were discovered to be linked.