Vol. 6, Issue 7, Part G (2020)

Abstract
About 50% of drugs which we are using today for clinical use are obtained from natural products and their derivatives, out of which the derived products from higher plants constitute about 25%. WHO estimated that an average of 80% of people in developing countries depends on herbal medicinal plants for traditional remedies in day-to-day needs and about 855 traditional medicines include crude plant extracts. About 3.5 to 4 billion world’s population depends on plant resources for drugs. The present study highlights the importance of documenting, ethnobotanical information and indigenous traditional knowledge about the medicinal plants used by the people in their day to day life to cure some common ailment in the sample study area of Skandagiril Hills of Kalawara.