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The ethnic people of Darjeeling have their peculiar methods of herbal treatment which are distinctly different from other tribes of India. The book entitled “Ethnomedicinal Plants of Darjeeling Himalaya” provides information about 155 plant species with 128 genera under 75 families and their uses including high therapeutic value frequently used by the local people throughout Darjeeling Himalayan region. This book is the first comprehensive account of Ethnomedicinal plant species from the Darjeeling Himalayan region of India. The book is profusely illustrated with a number of coloured photographs, location map, landscape views, plant species and major threats to the taxa. This book provides updated names of taxa, important synonyms, different vernacular names, English names, brief botanical description, flowering and fruiting, altitudinal range, status, distribution within Darjeeling Himalaya, geographical distribution, plant parts used and medicinal uses mentioned in details. The information given in this book will be immensely useful in utilization, development of novel plant origin drugs and further research purpose to policy makers, administrators, common public, students, botanists, biologists, scientists, research scholars, foresters, wild life and biodiversity board officers, ethnobotanists, ethnobiologists, ethnophamacologists, pharmacologists, herbal healers, spiritual healers, tourists, nursery men, schools, colleges, universities, research institutions and university teachers.