Abstract

The study area is located in Abyan Governorate between latitude and longitude 45º 50 to 46º 50 E 13º 00 to 14º 00 N. The study was carried out during the period from May 2007 to August 2009 by a trip every month during the summer. The results of the field survey were identified by79 plant species belonging to 62 genera, and34 family were used for different therapeutic purposes. The difference of plant uses varied with the diversity of the plants. The uses varied between the external and internal uses. The difference of plant use varied between leaf, juice, whole plant and other parts. Conscious of the difference of benefits of plant parts. Through the plant list it is clear that the highest percentage of uses was for the leaves, which were represented by 46, followed by the fruit and the plant juice and then the whole herb, which each represented 13 species followed by the roots that represented 7 types of plants and then seeds with 4 species and leg and flowers with 3 types and finally the envelope In both types of plant and in the type of use it is clear that most of the internal uses were high at 56.36% and then external uses, which amounted to 43.63%.