Banyan and Peepul- Traditional Family Medicine (Health Series)

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If you are asked to select two trees as being typically representative of India, you can with all Justification point out to the banyan and the peepul. For, both have a hoary history in our literature, both are regarded holy and are associated with so many aspects of our socio-cultural milieu and both are common, popular. venerated, multifarously useful and also medicinal- all over India. Banyan is a vast, almost an eternal tree giving an expansive and an inviting shade and. a shelter as well as a source of food to innumerable, birds, squirrels, monkeys and so on. Peepul is particularly holy associated as it is with Buddha and the Lord Dakshinamurthi; its reference occurs in the Vedas and the Bhagavadgita. There is probably no village in most parts of India where you do not have either the banyan or the peepul and most probably both. Every child is familiar with both of these trees and so many fables have grown around them, in fancy and also in history.