Traditional knowledge of local vaidhyas about medicinal plants and their importance in local health care is well known since Vedic period.Plants are considered as divine in origin and were worshipped as Mother(Goddess). Screening of medicinal plants has become a potential source of bio-dynamic compounds of therapeutic value in phytochemical researches. Ethnobotanical documentation is one way of capturing this body of knowledge. Hence the survey of medicinal plants and their traditional uses by traditional practicners of Badami taluk of Bagalkot district as it has a long history of medicinal plants since from Chalukyan period.
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