Abstract:
In the era of modernization, scientific advancement and technological development in the
country, local people in the backward areas of Hardoi district, Uttar Pradesh still depend
upon plant based formulation for their day to day health related problems due to lack of
proper medical facility at villages. A survey was conducted to document the
ethnobotanical/ethnomedicinal plant used by the local people. A total of SO plants belonging
to 35 families and 44 genera were documented in use for day to day health problems/ailments
and in other uses like vegetable and cattle concentrates. These plants comprised 22 species
each of trees & herbs, five shrubs and three climbers.Thirty one ailments/diseases were cured
by these plants species. Leaves were used from 16 species, fruits from 11 species, seeds from
four species and rhizome from two species.
