• UMAIR ALAM,AYIAZ AHMED
• ALTAF HUSSAIN

Plants are natural industries, which provide high quality food and raw material for pharmaceutical, cosmetic and perfumery industries without causing environmental degradation. Medicinal plants as a group comprise approximately 8000 species and account for around 50% of all the higher flowering plant species of India. India possesses almost 8% of the estimated biodiversity of the world with around 0.126% million species. The world health organization estimates that about 80% of the population of most developing countries relies on herbal medicines for their primary healthcare needs. The age-old tribal knowledge of plants is an important aspect of ethnobotanical research. These Medicinal plants were also integral to traditional Indian system of medicine i.e. Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani. The first historical account of medicinal use of plants is found in ancient Indian treatise Rigveda, around 1500-400 BC. The Objective of this article is to investigate, identify and document the uses of medicinal plants in traditional medicines by local inhabitants of Chenab valley, Doda , Jammu and Kashmir, India.

Medicinal plants, chenab valley.

"AN STUDY OF MEDICINAL PLANTS USED BY LOCAL INHABITANT’S OF DISTRICT DODA UNION TERRITORY OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR, INDIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 11, page no.d57-d61, November-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2311305.pdf

"AN STUDY OF MEDICINAL PLANTS USED BY LOCAL INHABITANT’S OF DISTRICT DODA UNION TERRITORY OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR, INDIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 11, page no. ppd57-d61, November-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2311305.pdf