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of rural people including cowherds, goatherds, shepheards etc. were also
interviewed. Many vaidyas, medicinman and herbalist of the area have also
provided a number of valuable information about the traditional uses of plants.
It was observed that the 'Nath' appeared to be more conservative and
did not like to share their knowledge with the others, the rural medicineman and
herbalist seemed proud of telling the secrets about the traditional knowledge of
plant, even some of them required great persuation similar experiences were also
reported by Jain (1965) during the survey of the tribals of Bastar, Madhya Pradesh.
A classified list of the plants of ethnobotanical records enumerated in
the text is presented in the table- 1, giving the source of information about the
plant(s) and its occurrence. It is evident (Table-1) that the ethnobotanical
information are mainly based on the personal interviews and field visits of the
'Nath' inhabited area. The data on occurrence of the plant species (frequent, rare.
endangered) based on visual observation indicated that out of 272 plant species
of ethnobotanical importance 235 plant species are frequent, 24 plants species
are rare and 13 plant species are endangered as regards their availability or
occurrence in the area under study.
There appears a significant impect of interaction between the man
and environment. It indicate the over exploitation of the plant species by the rural
people/for various uses other than ethnobotanical ones (Table-2)