Study of ethno-botanical herbaceous plants and their utilization in district Agra, Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh is known as a rich source for valuable medicinal herbs. These herbs found here are distributed throughout India and to various parts of the world. From the ancient time herbs have been used as the source of botanical medicine by the human beings. Herbs are the richest source of medicines due to the presence of biochemicals in them which are useful to cure various diseases. The present study includes ethno-botanical importance of the herbs commonly used by different local communities. Ethno-botanical density as well as diversity may vary from region to region and habitat to habitat. Keeping this in view an extensive survey work was carried out in Agra (western part) of Uttar Pradesh state of India for the medicinal herb resources to obtain information about the traditional uses and knowledge of local people about these popular herbs. Based on the results it was found that 118 species had useful medicinal uses to treat different human and livestock ailments. Various plant parts were being used for curing different types of serious diseases such as tuberculosis, leprosy, asthma, piles, dengue fever, typhoid, blood bleeding etc in human beings and domestic animals.