Abstract

Ethnobotany is normally characterized as anthropological approach to the botany. With the arrival of human civilization, numerous frameworks of treatment have been grown fundamentally dependent on Plants. The plant-based traditional medical systems continues to give the essential medical care to more than 3/4 of the universes population. In India, the utilization of plants for therapeutic treatment traces all the way back to 5000 years. It was formally recognized that more than 2500 plant species have the medicinal value while more than 6000 plants are estimated to be explored in folk, traditional and herbal medicine. The arid and forest regions of Rajasthan have incredible possibility both from the economic as well as botanical points of view. This paper reviews the work done as such far in the ethnobotany of Rajasthan.