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Man`s interest in plants in mainly for food and medicines. The history fo herbal medicine is as old as human civilization. In the past, almost all the medicines were used from the plants, the plant being man's only chemist for ages. Drugs are chemical substances, which by interacting with biological systems change their behaviour, which is used for the purpose of diagnosis, prevention, relief of cure of a diseases in man or animals. Since his existence on this planet, man has had to depend on nature for substance and survival. He used medicinal plants to keep himself healthy. According to the studies on ethnomedicine and folk medicine about 2000 species are newly identified as drug yidlding plants and are well known for their use in about 4000 drug industries of various indian system of medicine. About Author : Dr. Irfan Ali Khan obtained his M.Sc. from the Aligarh Muslim University and Ph.,d. in Botany from the Osmania University, Hyderabad, specializing in Genetics and Plant Breeding. Dr. Khan is the Director of Nawab Shah Alam Khan Centre for Post Graduate Studies and Research Anwarul Uloom College Campus, Mallepally, Hyderabad. He teaches Post graduate students and guides research scholars at this centre. He has published 131 research papers in the reputed National and International Journals and is now on the panel of experts on mungbean for all countries of the South East Asia an dthe Middle East. Dr. Atiya Khanum obtained her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Botany from the Osmania University, Hyderabad, dr. Khanum has worked on the ecology of two lakes of Hyderabad with special reference to Planktonic and Mat forming algal communities. She is sassociate Professor and Head of the P.G. Department of Botany, Nawab Shah Alam Khan Centre for Post Graduate Studies and Research, Anwarul Uloom College Campus, Mallepally, Hyderabad. Contents : Preface Acknowledgements Editors Contributors A Panorama of Ethnobotany Ethnomedicinal Practices of Muthuvan Tribes of Kerala Herbal Remedies for Treatment of Gynaecological Morbidity herbal Remedies for Liver Diseases Plant Medicines Ethnomedicinal Plants of Indore District of Madhya Pradesh Ethnomedicine and ethnotherapeutics Medical Anthropology Cultural Aspects of Conservation of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Medicinal Plants in India and their conservation An Ethnobotanical Approach quantitative observatiosn on multipurpose wild Plants Strength and Wealth of theirepautic medicinal plants in India Tribal medicines in the Health care of Inhabitants of Adilabad Foresty of A.P.