In over a score of contributed research and review papers, this edited volume provides a glimpse of the rich herbal medicine and traditional knowledge heritage of India. Eminent plant scientists of the country who have been engaged in a study of the various aspects of the high dependency of the tribal and rural populations of the country on medicinal plant therapy have provided through these papers; a mass of scientific information on ethnomedical plants of over a dozen of different states of India; information related to ethnobotany of various primitive tribal groups; methods of plant remedies for different ailments; and an overview of the use of native resources as famine food. Each of the included papers is appended with an extended list of references for further and deeper reading.