INTRODUCTION
The ancient wisdom of the people of every nation has been crystallized into different systems of traditional or folk medicine. Among the different traditional systems some are well established and known as codified systems of ‘traditional medicine, supported by theories and rich experience and recorded in writing like Ayurveda, while noncodified traditional medicinal systems such as folk, tribal or indigenous medicine has merely been practiced and passed verbally from generation to generation, without any written record [1, 2]. Today ethnicity is as vibrant as any time in history and it is our responsibility to take the essential steps to getter the knowledge about the rich noncodified traditional medicine of the ethnic communities and use them as a lead in advancing the frontiers of science and technology.