Uses of Some Traditional Medicinal Indian Plants

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Girendra Kumar Gautam*¹, Devendra Pratap Singh¹, Umesh Dhakad¹, Ankit Saini², Ravi Kishna^3
1Bhagwant Institute of Pharmacy, Bhagwantpuram, Mujaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, India
²Krishna College of Pharmacy, Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh, India.
³GLA University, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India

Abstract
In India, There are several herbal and folk remedies available for curing many health problems. Right from its beginning, the documentation of traditional knowledge especially on the medicinal uses of plants, has provided many important drugs of modern day. Traditional medicinal plants play a major role in meeting the medical and health needs of the people and India has a great wealth of medicinal flora and traditional medicinal knowledge. The many places of India and also Himalayan region are a rich repository of medicinal flora because of the geographical position and difficult means of transport and communication. The traditions Indian medicinal knowledge of the ancients is carefully persevered in the literature like Vedas, many temples and historical places of different state. In which author selected hundred traditional Indian medicinal plants for present study.
Keywords: Traditional, Medicinal Plant, India, Use.