ECONOMIC AND ETHNO-MEDICINAL USES OF JUGLANS REGIA L. IN KASHMIR HIMALAYA

Recent emergence of herbal medicine, global economic crisis and intensifying biopiracy controversies have necessitated for an urgent
need for documentation of the traditional knowledge. Present study revealed that Juglans regia L. has considerable ethno-medicinal
properties and huge economic potential. The plant species is used to treat 17 different types of diseases. It was also observed that some
plant parts are used to treat more than one disease; likewise more than one plant parts are used to treat a particular disease. The
maximum number of diseases (9) is treated by fruit kernels followed by leaves. This knowledge could prove beneficial in phytopharmacological
research for the discovery of new therapeutic drugs and different industries.