This study was carried out by making face-to-face interviews with a total of 138 people in 7neighborhoods and 36 villages of the central district of Artvin between 2016 and 2019. In this study,the knowledge level of the local people in the research area about natural medicinal plants, thevernacular names of plants, used parts of these plants, their usage purposes, and usage methods weretried to be revealed. It was questioned whether the local people, whose demographic characteristicswere also determined, had any herbal mixture of their own. It was determined that 43 different plantsbelonging to 27 families were used by the local people for medicinal purposes. The families thatcontain the most used medicinal species are listed as Rosaceae, Asteraceae, Lamiaceae. With theanalyzed data, the use-value (VU) of medicinal plants, whether there is a consensus among those whogave information about the plants used for disease groups (FIC), and the use intensity (FL) of theseplants were determined. It was concluded that traditional treatment methods with plants are used,especially influenza and cold, in respiratory system diseases and skin diseases, and there is a highconsensus on the treatment of these diseases with medicinal plants