Traditional medicine plays a vital role in social health as its knowledge is imparted generation to generation and
because of its authenticity, easy availability and low cost, is used widely. In turn, conservation of plants of medicinal value is
done by the society giving the plants cultural value. Teminalia catappa, one of the plants used for variety of ailments in
traditional medicine. In present study, the traditional uses of T. catappa were enumerated by the survey and discussion with
people especially old age ones having knowledge of traditional medicine; also from the literature survey carried out. Along with,
the qualitative phytochemical screening of bark, leaves and fruits was done to get array of bioactive secondary metabolites in
different solvents like methanol, ethanol and distilled water
