Author(s): Swati Shikha and Anil Kumar

Abstract: Traditional practices of medicines are slowly fading away due to modernization in science and technology. Modern synthetic drugs are replacing natural herbal medicines. People belonging to tribal communities still practice their traditional medicine and are known to be into traditional medicine practices from ages. They use various formulations for the preparation of medicines with different parts of plant like roots, leaves, bark, fruits, seeds and stems or extracted compounds or whole plant to cure small injuries to various chronic diseases with negligible side effects. This review presents the uses of total 40 ethnomedicinal climbers used in treatment of various ailments including their family name, parts used and local name of species as well.