This article highlights the importance and role of plant based medicines and their applications of indigenous believes, knowledge, skills, customs and practices, concerned with primary health care, edible and other economic importances among Irulas of Velliangiri hills, Western Ghats of Coimbatore District, Tamil Nadu, India. Analyzing the ethnobotanical information gathered on 93 plant species is presented in this paper.
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