Plants have been utilized as medicines realistically in all cultures. Around 70 percent of the rural population relies on the conventional therapeutic system of medicine in India which incorporates mostly those plants that assist as the fundamental source of health care. Medicinal herbs have been used to conserve and flavour food, to cure ailments and to restrain health complications from the time immemorial. The extensive use of healthcare preparations and phytomedicines is interpreted in the ‘Vedas’. Almost each part of the plant has its distinctive effect and own medicinal properties. The significance of medicinal plants in conventional healthcare practices, providing evidence to new fields of research and biodiversity conservation is now well acknowledged. The present chapter is an attempt to document the ethnobotanical uses of 26 plant species of different families that are used by the folk people of the Nagroa-Bagwan tehsil of district Kangra to cure different ailments. Herbal formulations are eco-friendly and non- toxic in nature which is so important in present modern lifestyle.
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