ABSTRACT The Convolvulaceae are mostly twining herbs or shrubs, sometimes with milky sap, comprising about 85 genera and 2,800 species in the World. The present study focuses into nine species of Convolvulaceae in central India with reference to M.P. & C.G. which have excellent medicinal properties. Ipomoea L. (5 species discussed), used to treat arsenic and opium poisioning, under developed femal structures, piles and used as galactogogue, finds application in cardiac debility, sexual debility, hepatospleenomegaly, dyspepsia, hepatopathy etc. Evolvulus (2 species) is used in veneral debility, chronic bronchial asthma, epilepsy, brain tonic. Decoctions of Argyreia nervosa (Burn. f.) Boj. are used in seminal, nervous weakness, cerebral disorders and sex disorder and Merremia tridenteta (L.) Hall. f. (whole plant) while Merremia umbellata (L.) Hallier. f. useful in uropathy, inflammations and general debility, fistula, pustules and tumors.