Contents: Preface. 1. Indigenous herbal medicines in cure of tuberculosis in central India/Rajiv Rai. 2. Folklore treatment of gynaecological disorders/B. Sandhya Sri and T.V.V. Seetharami Reddi. 3. Lesser known herbal folk medicines in cure of skin infections amongst tribal communities of Chhattisgarh/Rajiv Rai. 4. Folk medicines used by the Motak tribe of Dibrugarh district, Assam, India/Dilip Kalita and Ajit Ch. Keot. 5. Ethnobotanical uses of plants in sexual purposes by adivasi community in Gujarat State, India/D.C. Bhatt and K.J. Bhatt. 6. Cultural dynamics and role of folklore studies: common proverbs in the state of Rajasthan, India/Aparna Pareek. 7. Some observations on traditional and ethnobotanical uses of underground parts of plants in Gujarat/D.C. Bhatt, K.D. Mitaliya and S.K. Mehta. 8. Studies on ethnobotany of exitic plants in Gujarat/K.D. Mitalya, D.C. Bhatt and P.I. Laskari. 9. Ethnobotany of musa balbisiana colla from Brahmaputra Valley of upper Assam/Dilip Kalita and Hemamoni Das. 10. Traditional uses of medicinal plants in India/Rashmi Verma, Dipti Verma and Gurdeep Bains. Present book provides excellent glimpses of the rich herbal medicine and traditional knowledge heritage of India. Ethnobotany deals with the immediate relationship between human societies and plants. Herbal medicine today owes its existence much to the skill and painstaking labour of the ancient traditional folk healers of India and the world, who were pioneers in discovering the curative effects of several herbs, often at the risk of the lives of their fellowmen. Herbal medicines are in great demand in both developed and the developing countries in primary healthcare because of their great efficacy and little or no side effects. In India, the indigenous system of medicine namely Ayurvedic, Siddha and Unani have been in existence for several centuries. These traditional systems of medicine together with homeopathy and folklore medicine continue to play a significant role largely in health care system of the population. The tribal and rural population of India is highly dependent on medicinal plant therapy for meeting their health care needs. This attracted the attention of several botanist and plant scientists of several medicinal plants and there was a spurt of scientific literature.