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inhabited by over 550 tribal communities beloning to different ethnic group
living in remote forest areas. The different traditions, believes, and
cultures of the various tribes and the diversity of the flora in India richly
contribute to plant folklores. With the advent of technological progress of the
so called civilized societies, the age old cultures of tribal communities have
now threatened an extinction. Their age old, time tested cultural values, rich
traditional skills and above all the oral folklore knowledge system are fast
disappearing and are likely to be lost for ever. This phenomenon has caused a
great concern to the scientists as well as the government agencies leading to
facing this challenge and to conserve this valuable knowledge and wisdom of
the tribals/ aboriginal communities for the posterity. One way of fighting this
challenge is concerned with ethnobiology which obviously includes the folklores
of plants as well as animals since this endeavour is related with plants, hence
only ethnobotancial considerations are included whose multidiscioplinary
facets include anthropology, medical and economic botany, besides the other
usual branches. De (1968) has rightly regarded ethnobotany as the study of
interrelationship between the people and the plants. The practical knowledge
of various uses of plants may be obtained either by, a thorough survey of the
literature and/or by field studies among primitive people. The study of plants
amongst the primitive people is now receiving much attention from botanists
and other research workers through out the world besides, the aboriginals have
also learnt about the traditional treatment of diseases by the method of trial