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The documentation of the biodiversity and it is traditional as well as medicinal uses by the ethnic communities have assumed priority due to the misuse and rampant loss of biodiversity, the emerging threats of biopiracy and the increasing patent wars on bioresources. Since, the medicinal plants are very important for the production of various drugs because thousands of years ago, these plants are used by our forefathers for the treatment of various diseases. Therefore, now a day, these medicinal plants are used for the production of various drugs as well as to cure various diseases. Through there are a good number of publications on ethnobotany on particular and different tribes but the present study was carried out to explore the vascular plant diversity and investigate the ethnomedicinal potential and their conservation status in the villages of Guna district, Madhya Pradesh, India. In this research survey, only medicinal plant, their local names and their medicinal uses were interviewed and presented. The information was obtained from local informant i.e. Vaidya’s, Hakeems and Ayurvedic Practitioners etc. having knowledge about medicinal plants. The paper deals about some medicinal plants used by the Bheel primitive tribe of Guna district, Madhya Pradesh, India. The paper enumerates 25 medicinal plant species belonging to eighteen families used by Bheel tribes for curing various ailments among human beings and animals. Key-words: Ethnobotany, Ethnomedicinal, Medicinal Plants, Multidisciplinary Science, Tribes INTRODUCTION Ethnobotany is a multidisciplinary science defined as the interaction between plants and people. The relationship between plants and human cultures is not limited to use of plants food, clothing and shelter but also includes their use for religious ceremonies ornamentation and health care . In the past, ethno-botanical research was predominately a survey of the plants used by villagers but modern ethnobotany concerned with documentation, description and explanation of complex relationships between cultures and (uses of) plants, focusing primarily How to cite this article Jain M, Shrivastava PN, Samar R. Survey of Ethnobotanical Medicinal Plants Used by the People of District Guna, Madhya Pradesh, India. Int. J. Life Sci. Scienti. Res., 2018; 4(4): 1880-1888. Access this article online www.ijlssr.com on how plants used, managed and perceived across human societies (e.g as food; as medicines; in divination; in cosmetics; in dying; as textiles; in construction; as tools; as currency; as clothing; in literature; in rituals and in social life . The fundamental structure of ethnobotanical research is to examine the dynamic relationship between human populations, cultural values and plants recognizing that plants permeate materially and metaphorically many aspects of culture and that nature is by no means passive to human action but interacted with each other. Evidence shows that people who have lived in one locality for a long time have rich sets of knowledge about and cognition of plants and local ecology. Some other researchers [3] induced a tentative research on the social and cultural values of ethnobotany. To document the secret uses of plants, Ethnobotany has become an important part of our world. Recent studies of tribal knowledge of plants are an imperative fact of ethno-botanical research; people healed themselves Research Article Int. J. Life Sci. Scienti. Res. eISSN: 2455-1716 Jain et al., 2018 DOI:10.21276/ijlssr.2018.4.4.5 Copyright © 2015 2018| IJLSSR by Society for Scientific Research under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International License Volume 04 | Issue 04 | Page 1881 with traditional medicines and ancient remedies from time immemorial . Human beings have found remedies within their habitat, and have adopted different strategies depending upon the climate, phyto-geographic and faunal characteristics, as well as upon the peculiar culture and socio-structural typologies . Most of such information is passed on the following generations by traditional healers through oral communication and discipleship practice . Moreover, the World Health Organization (WHO) has reported that about 80% of the world population relies on traditional medicine to cure ailments [8] and about 84% of India depends on the traditional system of health care . Today the field of ethnobotany requires a variety of skills: botanical training for identification and preservation of plant specimens, anthropological training to understand the cultural concepts around the perception of plants, linguistic training, at least enough to transcribe local terms and native morphology because the native healers are often reluctant to accurately share their knowledge with outsiders . Today, nearly 74% of pharmacologically active plantderived components were discovered. Currently, people of Asia and India are utilizing plants as part of their routine health management . In 2003 at the 32 session of UNESCO, the convention for safeguarding intangible cultural Heritage was adopted in Paris, in which it was stated for the first time that knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe and part of our cultural heritage, means that ethnobotany, ethnobiology, folk medical and pharmaceutical knowledge and now recognized as being inextricable components of culture and therefore worthy of being protected and sustained . The herbal medicine occupies a central position from the ancient times to present day. The ethno-botanical pharmacology is as old as man himself. In India, first record of plant medicine was compiled in Rigveda between 4500-1600 BC and Ayurveda 2500-600 BC. In the late 1970s ethno-botany introduced as a science in China, but the deep-rooted ethno-botanical knowledge in Chinese culture can be traced back to very ancient times. The vast literature on Chinese Materia Medica, agriculture and horticulture is proof of this history . Similarly, the Unani system in subcontinent like Pakistan is very popular . In India there are many traditional systems of medicine, namely Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani, Homeopathy and Allopathic are distinguishing. Ethnomedicine is an area of research that deals with medicines derived from plants, animals or minerals and used in the treatment of various diseases and ailment based on indigenous pharmacopeia, folklore and herbal charm. The use of plants for medicinal treatment dates back to 5000 years. Over 2500 plants species are officially recognized for medicinal purposes while over 6000 plants are estimated to be explored in traditional, folk and herbal medicine . In India much literature relevant to ethno-botany can be traced in the Vedic literature, Charak and Shusruta and Charak Samhita appeared as the most important works. Very little organized work had been done until about twenty years ago. Several workers have been investigated the ethno botany of northern, southern and central India. India has a rich diversity of flora and fauna due to an immense variety of climate and altitudinal zones coupled with varied ecological habitats. Diversity refers to total variability within all the living organisms and ecological complexes with which it exists . Among different types of forests, the tropical dry deciduous forest occupies the largest area in Central India Madhya Pradesh including newly formed Chhattisgarh state possess largest forest area in the country . Due to increasing developmental work and other causes, the forest area in Madhya Pradesh like other states has been depleted quantitatively and qualitatively. Madhya Pradesh literally means "Central Province", and is located in the geographic heart of India, between latitude 21.2°N 26.87°N and longitude 74°02' 82°49' E. The state straddles the Narmada River, which runs east and west between the Vindhya and Satpura ranges; these ranges and the Narmada are the traditional boundaries between the north and south of India. Among different types of forests, the tropical dry deciduous forest occupies largest area in Central India . Madhya Pradesh is home to a large tribal population, who has been largely cut off from the mainstream development. This makes Madhya Pradesh one of the least developed states in India, with an HDI (Human Development Index) value of 0.375 (2011), which was well below the national average . The ethnic people Int. J. Life Sci. Scienti. Res. eISSN: 2455-1716 Jain et al., 2018 DOI:10.21276/ijlssr.2018.4.4.5 Copyright © 2015 2018| IJLSSR by Society for Scientific Research under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International License Volume 04 | Issue 04 | Page 1882 residing in different geographical belts of Madhya Pradesh depends on wild plants to meet their basic requirements and all the ethnic communities have their own pool of secret ethno-medicinal and ethno pharmacological knowledge about the plants available in their surroundings . Due to changing life style, extreme secrecy of traditional healers and negligence of youngsters, the practice and dependence of ethnic societies in folk medicines is in rapid decline globally; therefore, ethno-botanical exploitation and documentation of indigenous knowledge about the usefulness of such a vast pool of genetic resources are deliberately needed . Recently due to unplanned developmental programs, increasing modern healthcare facilities and impact of modern civilization in this area, natural resources, as well as traditional knowledge and tribal cultures are depleting rapidly at an alarming rate. Therefore, it is urgent to explore and document this unique and indigenous, traditional knowledge of the tribal community, before it diminishes with the knowledgeable persons. Further, documentation of indigenous and traditional knowledge is very important for future critical studies leading to sustainable utilization of natural resource and to face the challenges of biopiracy and patenting indigenous and traditional knowledge by others. Therefore, we selected several villages of tribes of Guna district for eth