TY - JOUR AU - Prasad, Goli Penchala AU - Goli, Penchala Pratap AU - Husain, Mohd Kashif AU - Prasad, Shyam Babu AU - Gurav, Arun Manohar AU - Narayanam, Srikanth PY - 2023/04/04 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Ethnobotanical and dietary uses of Bamboo unveiled by the tribes and local inhabitants of Chittoor district, West Godavari and East Godavari districts of Andhra Pradesh JF - International Journal of Ayurvedic Medicine JA - IJAM VL - 14 IS - 1 SE - Research Articles DO - 10.47552/ijam.v14i1.2289 UR - https://ijam.co.in/index.php/ijam/article/view/2289 SP - 131-138 AB - <p><strong>Aim and Objective:</strong> To unveil and document the folklore claims and dietary recipes of <em>Bambusa bambos </em>and<em> Dendrocalamus strictus</em>.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>The study was intended to examine the 101 tribal individuals like traditional healers, tribal doctors and elder people in the field trips on their regular utilization of different species of <em>Bamboo</em>.</p><p><strong>Results:</strong> The study explored 13 contemporary folklore claims on <em>B. bambos </em>and<em> D. strictus</em> species solicited from various tribal pockets of Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh and dietary recipes from the tribes of West Godavari &nbsp;and East Godavari&nbsp; districts, Andhra Pradesh.</p><p><strong>Conclusion:</strong> With this study, it can be concluded that various parts of <em>Bambusa bambos</em> and <em>Dendrocalamus strictus</em> are practiced as conventional drugs to treat different ailments by local tribes and conventional healers from Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh. Besides this, the young shoots of <em>Bambusa bambos</em> are a fabulous dietary hotspot for several minerals. This recipe of Bamboo shoots has been in permanence among the tribes of West Godavari and East Godavari&nbsp; districts for the past several generations. Ayurveda has also validated this fact owing to its therapeutic properties. By all its nutritive potential, it can be determined that it is not only good to the taste receptors but also healthy.</p> ER -