Morphological Study on Terminalia arjuna in Amravati Region (Vidharbh, Maharashtra)

Medicinal plants have been a major source of therapeutic agents to cure humandiseases, since ancient time. Terminalia arjuna one kind of widely used medicinal plant usedin various indigenous systemofmedicine like Ayurved, siddha, Unani. Plants have beenusedas medicines for thousands of year all over the world. As per World Health Organization(WHO) 80% ofworld population still depend on medicinal plants. Mostly developed countriesstill rely on plant based medicines for primary care WHO 1978.Arjuna is generally non –controversial drug. Arjuna has also manily two varieties now a days i.e. Terminalia arjunaand Terminalia tomentosa .Among them, Terminalia arjuna is accepted all over as Arjuna.To authenticate that the stem bark which have been used in study is original and notadulterated or confused with any other drug, so that morphological study is undertaken inAmravati region.