Tribal Medicinal Plants Specifically Of Rajasthan

Around seven percent of tribal population of India lives in Rajasthan. Ethnobotany can be defined as thetotal natural and traditional relationship and the interactions between man and his surrounding plant wealthfrom times immemorial, due to sheer, necessity, intuition, observation and experimentation. Ethnobotany ofIndia might is among the earliest in the world and all traditional systems of medicine had their roots inethnobotany. Rajasthan has rich cultural diversity and biodiversity. The world health organization (WHO)has recently recognized the importance of traditional medicinal system in different parts of globe and around4000 plant spp. have been identified which are used in traditional herbal medicinal system . However,proper identification of these crude drugs in Botanical terms has not been carried out or still remains disputedas different authors ascribed different plants source to various crude drugs (Sanghi and Kumar, 2000). Moreover several difficult diseases have problem related with vitality, diabetes, memory loss, could be curedeffectively by use of herbal medicine, which is generally not possible by the Allopathic medicines. However,there is no systematic documentation of this information. Medicinal plants are distributed across diversehabitats and landscape. Around 70 per cent of India’s medicinal plants are found in tropical areas. Mostly inthe various forest types spread across the Western and Eastern ghats, the Vindyas, Chota Nagpur Plateau,Aravallis and Himalayas.