Abstract

The medico-ethnozoological survey was carried out in 46 village of Tharu community inhibited at Indo-Nepal border of eastern Uttar Pradesh. Interviews of local healers were conducted to collect the indigenous knowledge recording use of amniotes animals to cure the human diseases. Total of 24 species of anamniotes were identified as medicinal importance. Out of 24 amniotes, 11 are fishes, 4 amphibians and 9 are the reptiles. The low cost and almost no side effects of the ethnozoological preparations made them adaptable for use by the local communities particularly curing various ailments of human being. An attempt has been made to document the ethnozootherapeutics and folk claims

Keywords

Anamniotes animal, Ethnozoology, Tharu tribes, Devipatan division.

Received on 24/08/2020, Accepted on 22/09/2020, Published on 28/09/2020