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ABSTARCT Solanum spirale is a tribal medicinal food plant which is used among the Adi tribes of Arunachal Pradesh, India. The methanol extract of shoot and berry were studied for their total phenolic (Folin-Ciocalteu’s method) and total flavonoid contents (colorimetric method) to study antioxidant potential ((DPPH & ABTS). The extracts were recorded to contain considerable amounts of phenolic content (18.64±2.12 mg GAE/g) in shoot and 11.72±1.42 mg GAE/g) in mature berry and flavonoid content of (5.29±1.01 µM RE/g) in shoot&50.52±1.03 µM RE/g) in mature berry and antioxidant potentials were calculated as 29.85±1.25 µM/g in the ABTS assay of shoot and38.27±1.33µM/g in the ABTS assay of berry while 45.4±0.37µM/g in the DPPH assay of shoot and 52±0.92 µM/g in the DPPH assay of mature berry respectively. This work also discourse traditional use of Solanum spirale among Adi tribes of Arunachal Pradesh. Keywords: Solanum spirale, total phenolic, flavonoid content, antioxidant potential, tribals, medicinal food, ethnobotany.

ABSTARCT Allium hookeri Roxb.isan ethnic medicinal food plant used among Adi tribes of Arunachal Pradesh, India. Allium hookeri has been pharmacognostically discoursed in addition to phytochemical composition and proximate studies. This work also reports fifteen biologically active compounds from this medicinal food plant. Minerals and proximate composition of this plant is reported to be adequate for human consumption. Keywords: Phytochemistry, Proximate, Minerals, Medicinal plant, Ethnic food.

ABSTARCT Present study was carried out to accessed the traditional medicinal bioresources used in the East Siang District of Arunachal Pradesh, India as Arunachal Pradesh is a remote Indian territory where traditional medicines has been the main source of primary health management from time immemorial. This paper reports 99 medicinal plants used among the aborigines in at least 40 types of health problems among the tribal people inhibits the East Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh, India belong to 55 families. With 8 species, Solanaceae was recorded as the highest representing family then followed by Asteraceae and Rubiaceae with 5 species each. Almost all parts of the plants were recorded to use in the folk medical system. Keywords: Aborigines, Folk Medicine, Traditional knowledge, biologically active compounds.

For Indigenous people, food is also a medicine; they have rich traditional practices of using food in the management of various health problems. Arunachal Pradesh is a mountainous state with full of floral resources; aborigines of this state use numbers of food plants in their health practices. The folk food system in Arunachal Pradesh is composed mostly of semi-domesticated and wild collected vegetables. The present study was carried out to document the folk medicinal food plants used among the indigenous people of East Siang District of Arunachal Pradesh. The folk food plants are studied under nutraceutical point of view. Our work revealed a total of 36 plant species of folk medicinal food plants. The findings are given with scientific name, local name and uses as food and medicine in the paper.