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Contents: Volume I: Preface. Section A: Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK). 1. The land, the people. 2. The ethics of conservation in the lifestyle of the people. 3. Polyculture. 4. Sacred species. 5. Sacred natural sites and taboo system. 6. Sacred natural sites and the associated pantheon of deities. 7. Prevailing myths surrounding the sacred natural sites. 8. Ethnozoology from the landscape. Section B: Ethnobotany (Excluding Human-Related Disorders). 9. Why ethnobotany? 10. Plants and animal health care (Ethnoveterinary). 11. Ethnomycology from the landscape. 12. Dye-yielding plants and their processing. 13. Wild edible species (WES) from the landscape. 14. Plants used in rituals. 15. Fodder species from the landscape. 

Volume II: Section C: Ethnobotany (Of Human-Related Disorders). 16. Ethnobotany of Respiratory system-related disorders. 17. Ethnobotany of skin-related disorders. 18. Ethnobotany of Urinary system-related disorders. 19. Ethnobotany of Digestive system-related disorders. 20. Ethnobotany of Cardio-vascular system-related disorders. 21. Ethnobotany of the sense organs- eye, ear and nose-related disorders. 22. Ethnobotany of Musculo-skeletal system-related disorders. 23. Ethnobotany of Nervous system-related disorders. 24. Ethnobotany of reproductive system-related disorders. 25. Ethnobotany related to bacterial infections. 26. Ethnobotany related to viral infections. 27. Ethnobotany related to parasitic diseases. 28. Ethnobotany of other miscellaneous disorders. 29. Conservation status of the plants used in traditional health care. Plates. References. Glossary. Annexures. Index.

The present text encapsulates, broadly, all the features of TEK and the ethnobotany, as it relates to the district Pithoragarh, the state of Uttarakhand, Kumaon Himalaya. The text is divided into three sections and 29 chapters. An effort has been made to segregate the broad subject are of Traditional Ecological Knowle (TEK) with Ethnobotany.