Volume 8 | Issue - 7
Volume 8 | Issue - 7
Volume 8 | Issue - 6
Volume 8 | Issue - 6
Volume 8 | Issue - 6
The paper presents about the documentation of ethno botanical studies of some plants included in medicines of Kappat hills of Gadag. Kappat Gudda is located in southern part of the Gadag. The top of Kappat Gudda is 750 meters above the sea level.. some parts of Kappat hills still maintained a great traditional knowledge based on herbal medicines. But this valuable information with different people is under the threat of modernization. Overexploitation and the destruction of forest wealth are leading to the depletion of these herbal medicines from their natural habitat and many may be at the brink of extinction. The only way to protect, conserve and use this precious knowledge for the well being of humanity is to create social awareness about the traditional knowledge as well as resources. This paper is an attempt in this direction. There is a need of serious attempt to identify and do research on ethno medicine of Kappat hills . It is the need of the hour of documentation of still unknown aspects, information of ethno medicine of the state. Social awareness about the threat of extinction and over exploitation of these herbal resources will help to preserve, protect and conserve these rare medicinal plants. The attempt to identify and document information on ethnic medicine is the beginning of an important era to protect and utilize our ethnic information. South India which has rich repository of several rare and endemic plants. During the last few decades, the forest area has been subjected to over-exploitation by various anthropogenic activities. So the present study has been carried out to document the indigenous plant knowledge used by the tribes of Kappat hills in Gadag district from January 2023 to September 2023. Data were collected from 10 randomly selected tribal elders using semi-structural interviews and observations. Ethnomedicinal plant species used by tribal people to manage different ailments were identified and documented.