Life sciences Leaflets 9:244 – 250, 2010. ISSN 0976 - 1098 http:/ / lifesciencesleaflets.ning.com/ PEER-REVIEWED Page | 244 Published on: 1 st November 2010 SOME NOTEWORTHY ETHNO MEDICINAL PLANTS OF WESTERN KACHCHH, GUJARAT 1 R.M. PATEL, 2 Y.B. DABGAR and 3 P.N. JOSHI 1 Sahjeevan, Bhuj, Kachchh, 2. R. R. Mehta College of Science and C. L. Parikh College of Commerce, Palanpur 3. Gujarat Institute of Desert Ecology (GUIDE), Post Box # 83, Mundra Road, Bhuj, Kachchh rmpecology@gmail.com ABSTRACT: The present paper is an attempt to bring to light the ethno-medicinal plants of western Kachchh region. Here we have enumerated total 26 medicinal plants, in which 14 are herbaceous ephemeral plants. In addition, vegetation types like mixed thorny forest and Euphorbia-Salvadora association are rich in the medicinal flora with 24 species in each types. KEY WORDS: Noteworthy, Medicinal plants, western Kachchh INTRODUCTION: Ethno-botany is a direct relationship between human-beings and plants. This relationship is divided into two broad groups such as abstract and concrete. The medicinal use of plants is one of the concrete relationships among them (Jain, 2004). Kachchh district is well-known for its diversity. Due to the socio-economic backwardness in the life-style of Kachchhi people, they depend heavily on the available natural resources to fulfill their day to day needs. Thus they constantly bank upon their traditional knowledge and constantly re-invent it too, based on their needs. For example, traditional methods which are used to fulfill their basic needs such as medicine, clothing, raw materials for house, food etc. In certain ethnic communities, this traditional knowledge is transmitted orally but in the modern era of technology, this knowledge in depleting i.e. new generation it is least interested in it (Ganesan et al., 2004).