Indigenous Knowledge and Use of Medicinal Plants Among the Kuria Communities in the Tarime and Serengeti Districts of Mara Region, Tanzania

This study documented indigenous knowledge and use of medicinal plants among the Kuria communities in Mara Region, Tanzania. Ethnobotanical data were collected collaboration with 20 traditional healers (THs), by jungle-walk-and-identify, field guides observation, semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions scientific identification plants. plant reported 100 from 34 families. Asteraceae (15%) prevailed, followed Fabaceae (13%) Lamiaceae (12%). Herbs constituted largest fraction (41%), shrubs (27%), trees (24%), grasses (4%), climbers ferns (1%). Leaves most used part. Healers listed about 53 diseases treated