Define Ethnobotany and write its importance.

Explanation

Ethnobotany is the study of a region.s plants and their practical uses through the traditional knowledge of the local culture of people.
Importance of Ethnobotany :
1. It provides traditional uses of plant.
2. If gives information about certain unknown and known useful plants.
3. The ethno medicinal data will serve as a useful source of information for the chemists pharmacologists and practitioners of herbal medicine.
4. Tribal communities utilize ethnomedicinal plant parts like bark, stem roots, leaves, flowers, flower bud, fruits, seeds, oils, resins, dyes and gum for the treatment of diseases like diarrhoea, fever, headache, diabetes, jaundice, snakebites and leprosy, stc.