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In our present work, health care practices among the indigenous Dimasa tribe of Diyungbra block, Dima Hasao District, Assam were studied. In the study, it was observed that health care consciousness had been spreading among them very rapidly. It is because of the educational development and of easy access to the relevant information through print as well as electronic media. Moreover, the flagship programme on health care awareness initiated by government and NGO contributed to the mass education in the field of health care and the benefit from such activities even penetrated to the illiterates. Consequently numerous superstitious beliefs and evil practices on the diseases have been declined drastically. Thus a dynamic transition phase in their health care system was observed. Another important finding is their ethnomedical use in some diseases. Such traditional knowledge and dexterous skills of using medicinal plants and herbs profusely found in the habitat of Assam have been evolved since time immemorial and have been perpetuated generation to generation among these indigenous Dimasa People as hierarchy. So, there is a great demand on scientific investigations on the efficacy of using such plants and herbs on curing some diseases and it will attract the great attention of scientific communities in the field of medicare and medicine.

Ayurvedic, Dimasa, Ethnomedicinal Plants, Health Care, Etc

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