Traditionally Used Medicinal Flora of Ladakh

A floristic survey of Ladakh was rnade to assess the medicinal value of herbaceous flora. It is observed that local people still practice their unique traditional system of medicine for their health care system. About 57 plants used by tribals and local people of Ladakh in medicine have been enumerated in the present paper. Most of the plants contain valuable chemical substances that may be employed in Ayurvedic/Unani/Tibetan systems of treatment. The plants are employed in the treatment of fever, dysentery, diarrhoea, cough, cold, stomach trouble, headache, skin disease etc. The present work aims at documentation of traditional uses of the local medicinal plants for the benefit of mankind and for further scientific investigation.