The study reveals that in absence of modern health facility, people in the area depend on plants for medicinal purposes. The general information shows that more than 80% of the rural people depend for their primary healthcare on folk medicine, mainly of plant origin. According to survey the people of Churu district use 68 different plants belonging to 33 families for curing various ailments, out of which 25 were herbs, 16 shrubs, 13 trees, 7 ephemerals and 11 climbers and twinners. In most of the case (31%), leaves were used for curing ailment followed by roots, seeds and whole pant (Fig.2). Flowers, Gum and latex were the least used plant parts.

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