Medicinal plants play an important role in primary health care especially in those areas where basic and proper health facilities are unavailable. The indigenous knowledge about the usage of medicinal plants to cure different human diseases is present in every part of the world. Through ages of test and mistake, people have expanded significant knowledge of medicinal plants and their usage which has been spread from generation to generation orally. According to WHO about 80% of people in developing countries are dependent on the traditional medicinal knowledge for their primary health care. According to research this indigenous knowledge is perishing at an alarming rate throughout the world therefore it is important to record this precious knowledge.
