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This paper is a synthesis of local traditional knowledge of plantsused as medicine and western biological science. In many areas women are responsiblefor curing their family members and others for various illness. Ethnomedicaluses of 51 plants by women in hamlets/villages of Jawhar and Mokhada talukasin Thane district, Maharashtra, have been recorded. Information from scientificliterature for each plant collected has been incorporated with traditionalknowledge to explain or substantiate traditional medicinal uses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]