Abstract

Abstract: India is blessed with various climatic zones rich in its flora and fauna. In India, Rajasthan is a state with mixed climatic conditions rich in medicinal plants diversity. Plants have been in use as medicines since time immemorial. In a society at various layers everybody bears his own personalized belief in practices concerned with health and diseases. Curative practices adopted in any section of population find support in terms of age old practices and customs which control community’s health seeking attitude. Most of the tribal people of SouthWest Rajasthan have faith on local plants for curing various ailments. Plant based medicines are cost-effective and also have no side effects. Much work has been also been carried out on ethno-medicinal plants of South-West Rajasthan used for treatment of various ailments by different tribal communities and researchers in Rajasthan. Present research article highlights some of the important medicinal plants used by tribal communities of Girwa tehsil of district Udaipur, South-West Rajasthan with their therapeutic use in day-to-day life.

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