ETHNOBOTANICAL USE OF PLANT IN ALIGARH DISTRICT (U.P.) FOR TREATING THE SOME COMMON DISEASES.

Ethnobotany is the study of how people of a particular culture and region make use of indigenous plants. The importance of medicinal plants in traditional healthcare practices, providing clues to new areas of research and in biodiversity conservation is now well recognized. However, Ethnobotanical information’s on the medicinal plants were lacking from many interior areas of Aligarh district (U.P.). The present paper provided these informations related 62 plant species belonging to 35 families and 52 genera, which were being used for treating the different common kinds of ailments, pain, vomiting and also leprosy by the local and rural communities of Aligarh district. The mode of administration of different plant species were presented here with their family and local name.