This book attempts to assess the status of Traditional Knowledge Systems (TKS)as a tool of conservation in the Arakalgud administrative unit of Karnataka. TheStudy is based on the field investigation and interaction with the followers ofTraditional systems such as healers and practitioners. Many plants in traditionalagricultural systems have medicinal value; these are found in home gardens, asscattered trees in croplands and grazing lands on field bunds. Consequently therehas been a reduction in the use of home remedies and preventive diets at thehousehold level.