Ethnomedicinal survey of shopian, Kashmir (J&K), India

Traditional methods of disease treatment and control using plants and animals are predominant in rural societies of Kashmir Himalayas. Kashmir has a rich flora of medicinal plants with diverse biological properties. As a result of an ethnobotanical survey conducted during 2005-2007 in Shopian - a hilly district under the Pir Panjal range, the present paper provides the information on 20 such plant species belonging to 20 genera and 14 families.