• Renu Jatan
• Manoj Kumar

Ethno botany is study of interrelationship of plants and local people. Medicinal plants serves as resources of traditional medicines and many modern medicines are directly or indirectly produced from plants. Due to enormous population increase, inadequate supply of drugs, side effects of many allopathic drugs there is urgent need of emphasis on the use of plant based medicines for treatment of wide variety of human diseases. Present study aims to identify and to document the ethno botanically important plant species of Bir Bara Ban a conservation reserve in Jind District of Haryana. Haryana is located in northwest India having 4.42 million covered areas. Protected area cover of Haryana is 33138.12 hectare which includes 2 national parks and 8 wildlife sanctuaries and 2 conservation reserves. Bir Bara Ban Jind is one of them. Bir Bara Ban (Latitude 29019ʹ, Longitude 76023ʹ) is located on National Highway 71A, Jind no. 8, in Jind district of Haryana. It covers 1036 acres of land. Ethno botanical information was collected by field survey among villagers of 6 adjoining villages of site, by study with herbaria and museum. Different plant parts are used in different plants for treatment of diseases. In majority of plants leaves and bark are used .Old aged people and rural folk of villages have been using local wild plants for treatment of various human ailments as well as cattle diseases. But these traditional medicinal practices are not documented. There is urgent need of documentation of this information. This paper documented 41 medicinal trees of Bir Bara Ban. Attention is required for conservation of medicinal wealth of study area as study site adversaly affected by grazing, cutting of trees and dumping of waste. Conservation of plants of study area will play major role in improving health and alleviation of poverty.

Medicinal Plants, Human ailment, Ethno botanical information

"An Ethno botanical study of some medicinal Trees of Bir Bara Ban (A conservation Reserve) In Jind District of Haryana", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.871-882, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904G36.pdf

"An Ethno botanical study of some medicinal Trees of Bir Bara Ban (A conservation Reserve) In Jind District of Haryana", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp871-882, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904G36.pdf