2 Furniture making, asthma, fish poisoning Fishing boats Aericeras corniculatum diabetes, leaves are used as fish poison, wood for fishing boats 3 Antifertility, skin diseases, ulcers, Washing Fuel wood & Avicennia alba Bl. contraceptive, fodder and fuel Fodder wood 4 Astringent, small pox, fodder, fuel Timber Fire wood Avicennia marina (Forsk) wood, timber, honey collection 5 Diuretic, leprosy, relieving ulsers, Fuel & Fodder Roof & Wall Avicennia Officinalis L. aphrodisiac making 6 Timber, fuel wood, hepatitis, tannin Timber Tannin Bruguiera cylindrica (L.) Bl. 7 Hypocotyls eaten as vegetable, Fishing stakes Hypocotyls Bruguiera gymnorrhiza fodder, wood for fishing boat, as vegetable (L. firewood 8 Timber, malaria, fruit paste are Timber Honey Ceriops decandra used against ulcers, fuel wood, collection honey collection 9 Fiber from stem are used against Medicinal Fiber Clerodendrum inerme (L. stomach pains and also as antiseptic 10 Stimulant, anti-spasmodic Medicinal week fish Derris trifoliata Lour. poison 11 Milk latex is used against paralysis Fish poisoning Match wood Excoecaria agallocha L. 12 Asthma, antifertility, snakebite Snake bite poor fire Lumnitzera recemosa wood Willd. 13 Astringent for diarrhoea, skin Fishing stakes, Fire wood, Rhizophora apiculata Bl. diseases, fodder, bark is used for piles, pit forks, Charcoal tanning, nausea, fuel wood tool handles 14 Hepatitis, diabetes, firewood, Diabetes Tannin Rhizophora mucronata tannin 15 Leaves are used in salads, leaf Medicinal food additive Salvadora persica decoction for asthma, cough, rheumatism 16 Fruits are edible, fodder, timber, fuel wood Timber Sonneratia apetala fuel wood 17 Hepatitis, eaten as leafy vegetable Medicinal Leaves Suaeda maritima TABLE PERCENTAGE EXPLOITATION OF EACH PLANT SPECIES –2: IN THE STUDY AREA AND IT’S MAJOR USAGE
2 Aericeras corniculatum Furniture making, asthma, diabetes, leaves are used as fish poison, wood for fishing boats fish poisoning Fishing boats 3 Avicennia alba Bl. Antifertility, skin diseases, ulcers, contraceptive, fodder and fuel wood Washing Fuel wood & Fodder 4 Avicennia marina (Forsk) Astringent, small pox, fodder, fuel wood, timber, honey collection Timber Fire wood 5 Avicennia Officinalis L. Diuretic, leprosy, relieving ulsers, aphrodisiac Fuel & Fodder Roof & Wall making 6 Bruguiera cylindrica (L.) Bl. Timber, fuel wood, hepatitis, tannin Timber Tannin 7 Bruguiera gymnorrhiza (L. Hypocotyls eaten as vegetable, fodder, wood for fishing boat, firewood Fishing stakes Hypocotyls as vegetable 8 Ceriops decandra Timber, malaria, fruit paste are used against ulcers, fuel wood, honey collection Timber Honey collection 9 Clerodendrum inerme (L. Fiber from stem are used against stomach pains and also as antiseptic Medicinal Fiber 10 Derris trifoliata Lour. Stimulant, anti-spasmodic Medicinal week fish poison 11 Excoecaria agallocha L. Milk latex is used against paralysis Fish poisoning Match wood 12 Lumnitzera recemosa Willd. Asthma, antifertility, snakebite Snake bite poor fire wood 13 Rhizophora apiculata Bl. Astringent for diarrhoea, skin diseases, fodder, bark is used for tanning, nausea, fuel wood Fishing stakes, piles, pit forks, tool handles Fire wood, Charcoal 14 Rhizophora mucronata Hepatitis, diabetes, firewood, tannin Diabetes Tannin 15 Salvadora persica Leaves are used in salads, leaf decoction for asthma, cough, rheumatism Medicinal food additive 16 Sonneratia apetala Fruits are edible, fodder, timber, fuel wood fuel wood Timber 17 Suaeda maritima Hepatitis, eaten as leafy vegetable Medicinal Leaves TABLE –2: PERCENTAGE EXPLOITATION OF EACH PLANT SPECIES AND IT’S MAJOR USAGE IN THE STUDY AREA
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