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Plants have been used in traditional medicine to treat various ailments and to produce drugs as well as inducing the development of modern medicine throughout the World for many years, which is called medicinal plant. Medicinal plant is a plant used as medicines which have its own organs used for therapeutic purposes and synthesis of drugs to treat livestock and human ailment. Medicinal plants are principally utilized in the healthcare system and easily accessible source of treatment for different ailments [15]. These medicinal plants also play an important role for development of pharmacopoeial and non- pharmacopoeial drugs, which provide a vital involvement of traditional and modern health care systems [9]. However, medicinal plants have various organs to produce and prepare efficient drugs which are used for healing and managing complicated diseases. Thus important organs were leaves, stems, flowers, seeds, fruits, shots, latex, barks and roots. In Ethiopia peoples have a long history using traditional medicinal plants for their primary health care and treat various livestock ailments [11]. From the beginning of humanity people have developed their own local specific traditional knowledge on medicinal plant use, management ailments and conservation of plants [10]. Generally local communities have indigenous knowledge and widely practiced traditional medicine in health care systems by using medicinal plant round Harar town but this medicinal plants and knowledge are threatened due to environmental degradation, cultural and socio-economic changes, death of elders and urbanization as well as lack of systematic conservation, research, influence of modern health expansion, sustainable utilization and lack of written document [20]. However, there is no comprehensive systematic study on the use and conservation practices of medicinal plants in the current study districts. Therefore, the present study was to fill up the problem through documenting indigenous knowledge, plants use, methods of preparation, routes of administration, and conservation of medicinal plants around Harar town.

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