HEALTH BENEFITS OF BANYAN TREE ( NATIONAL TREE OF INDIA )
BANYAN TREE Banyan tree is a sacred tree of India . I t is native to India found in Myanmar ,Thailand ,southeast Asia ,china ,south America ,Africa and Malaysia .It symbolishes the Hindu Gods Trimurthi ,s ,Lord Brahma ,Lord Vishnu and Lord Shiva . It has lot of medicinal benefits . The various parts of the tree are used for treatment of many diseases in Indian system of medicines like Siddha ,Ayurveda and Folk medicines , due to their scientifically proven medicinal activities .This tree is called tree of immortality because of the long aerial roots that hang down to the soil thus starting another part of the tree . It can grown in to the giant tree covering several sectors . It grows height more than 21 meters and lives for many years . The leaves are 10 to 20 cm long ,broad ,oval ,glossy and has many aerial roots .White milky fluid oozes out of leaves if broken . The banyan tree contains several phytonutrients like ketones ,flavonoids ,sterols ,tigilic acid ,ph