Indigenous leafy vegetables play a crucial role in addressing the food scarcity problem worldwide. Although it is inexpensive, but it is rich in phytonutrients. Apart from its nutritive value, they are gifted with natural antioxidants and pharmacologically active compounds which can overcome the problem of malnutrition, oxidative stress, anemia and other diseases. They play a prominent role in alleviating hunger of expanding population of the world. However, they remain underutilized due to lack of awareness among the people about its overlapping nutritional and medicinal values. Besides their wider applications, they boost the socioeconomic condition of farmers and tribal people by generating income source for earning their livelihood. Due to its high adaptability to agro-climatic conditions, low maintenance and less investment it can be easily exploited for the benefit of humankind. With vanishing ethnomedicinal knowledge day by day, the need of the hour is to explore the hidden potential of indigenous leafy vegetables for future generation by immediate documentation and conservation. Research in greater scale of indigenous leafy vegetables can give surprising varieties which can be used as future medicines as well as superfood.