Customary use of folk medicine in primary health care (PHC)
The main source of knowledge in folk treatment or folk medicine is our traditional cultural. Tis knowledge helps in
reducing primary common health disease. Different medical plants play significant role to constitute major form of folk
medicines. A particular medical plant has a specific medicinal value but that must have been selected after countless hits
and trials of treatments. Beneficial species were treasured as medicines where as non-beneficial species must have been
discarded. The useful information about the plant and associated knowledge of its efficacy were thus acquired through
ageless experience3
. Some of these traditions are briefly described in Table 1.