Butea monosperma (Lam.) Taub: a common medicinal tree of India

Butea monosperma, popularly known as Palash, a moderate sized deciduous tree, widely distributed in India, Burma, and in all Asian Hemispheres. It is not only used in Ayurveda, Unani and Homeopathic medicine but also used in many pharmacological industries in various drug formulations. The plant also having economic values, providing livelihood to many tribal communities. Keeping this in mind, an attempt has been made to document its ethnomedicinal, pharmacological and economic values with the plant photographs for easy identification in the field.