A list of some important medicinal plants with their medicinal uses from Himalayan State Uttarakhand, India

Abstract

Himalayan range has a rich heritage of knowledge on plant based therapy. Medicinal plants play major role in the livelihood from all over the world. Uttarakhand, a Himalayan state of India also depends on the medicinal plants for medicine and traditional therapy. The people from this state use plants for their primary health care system mainly depend on traditional knowledge of medical practices and medicinal herbs. Many of the previous studies on traditional medicine as scientific outputs having traditional claims of effectiveness which are helpful to manage various ailments. In this regards many native medicinal plants listed in article are significantly utilized by the locals, which was need to document. In this scenario we try to document some medicinal plants with their medicinal properties from this state.