Local Health Traditions (LHTs), Oral Health Traditions (OHTs), and Ethno-Medicinal Practices (EMPs): Methodical Approach and Critical Appraisal to Establish Novelty and Uniqueness

The publication titled Local Health Traditions (LHTs), Oral Health Traditions (OHTs), and Ethno-Medicinal Practices (EMPs): Methodical Approach and Critical Appraisal to Establish Novelty and Uniqueness is an account of local health traditions (LHTs) documented by the Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences (CCRAS) during the year 2007 2018 under Tribal Health Care Research Program (THCRP). It discusses LHT practices pertaining to 348 plant species documented through field surveys in 58 districts of 19 states/territories of different agroclimatic zones across India by 16 CCRAS institutes under THCRP and validation of LHTs based on classical Ayush literature. The book is mainly divided into two chapters. Chapter 1 provides the introduction about the documentation of LHTs, oral health traditions (OHTs), and ethnomedicinal practices (EMPs) focusing on the background, objective(s), methods (details of study area), and data analysis (informant consensus factor and validation score of LHTs). Chapter 2 is dedicated to the documentation and validation of LHTs based on indigenous medicinal plants under the heads such as Sanskrit name, habit and distribution, therapeutic uses, ethnomedicinal uses reported in the study, other ethnomedicinal uses reported in the literature, and conservation status. A complete list of references cited in the publication has been provided under different sections based on validation criteria, that is, indices of regional/other names, family, drug, use report, and Sanskrit name. Format for the documentation of LHTs/OHTs/EMPs and claim proforma (for submission of details by claimant/healer) are also provided as annexure.