Medicinal as well as sacred plants of Bilaspur Town, District Rampur (Uttar Pradesh)

In India, many religious festivals are celebrated by the people from Kashmir Kanyakumari. All people celebrate religious festivals with scientific background and use one or several plants or plant parts in their ceremonies. The various parts of plants have been used as a source of medicine by man from ancient to modern era. The God has given some specific power to certain plants which play important role in prosperous human life. The present study was carried out among the plants of Bilaspur to identify the sacred as well as medicinally important plants. Bilaspur is a town in Rampur district, Uttar Pradesh. Total 22 plants belonging to 18 families were enumerated which are sacred as well as medicinally important. These are Aegle marmelos, Calotropis gigantea, Cannabis sativa, Catharanthus roseus, Curcuma longa, Cynodon dactylon, Datura stramonium, Ficus bengalensis, Ficus religiosa, Ficus virens Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, Justicia gendarussa, Mangifera indica, Melia azadirachta, Musa paradisiaca, Nelumbo nucifera, Nyctanthes arbor-tristis, Ocimum sanctum, Oryza sativa, Saraca asoca, Tegetes erecta and Thevetia peruviana.