Ethnobiology : Therapeutics and Natural Resources
Contents: Foreword Acknowledgement Preface I. Introduction II. Beneficial 1. For Human i. Herbal Medicine from Mangrove Areas of South 24 Pgs ii. An Ethno-Medico-Ecological Survey at Paschim Medinipur District for Natural Health Care and Green Belt Movement iii. A Contribution to the Ethnobotany of Gujarat: Some Medicinal Plants Used as Antidiabetic, Antipyretic and Icteric Agents iv. Fruit Can Play as an Antidote in Different Ailments v. Instant Household Remedies for Dyspepsia and Cooking Industry vi. Potential Remedies for Everyday vii. How You Can Survive for a Long Time in the Earth? viii. Herbal Folk Remedies of Bankura and Medinipur Districts, West Bengal 2. For Animals i. Ethnoveterinary Medicines from the Tribal Areas of Bankura and Medinipur Districts, West Bengal ii. Effects of an Aqueous Extract of Cardiospermum halicacabum Linn. Seed on Experimentally Induced Rat Paw Oedema iii. Herbal Veterinary Medicine from the Tribal Areas of Midnapur and Bankura Districts, West Bengal iv. Indigenous Household Human-Animal Health Care Practices Through Ethnomedicinal Animals III. Environmental Awareness 1. Traditional Vegetable Dyes from Central West Bengal 2. Natural Vegetable Dyes for Textile Industry in South Bengal 3. Effects of Polluted Air of Durgapur in Some Medicinal Plants 4. Selected Piscicidal Plants from South Bengal to Catch Fish 5. Beware of the Selected Harmful Plants to Keep the Body Fit 6. Acupressure - A Way of Natural Living 7. Let's Go to Know Our Popular Superstitions, Magico-religious Beliefs and on Some Curious Cults on Plants, Animals and Events 8. Beneficial Common Birds in Bengal 9. Panther's Appeal to Human to Protect Biodiversity 10. Sacred Grove Relics as Bird Refugia 11. Foot Prints of Mammals 12. Apiphilic Plants in Agro-forestry for Better Bee Management to Get More Honey and Wax 13. Clay Dyes of Purba Medinipur - A Gift of Nature 14. Some Valuable Aspects on Bio-natural Cultivation 15. Pest Management Practices Through Natural Resources 16. Non-Conventional or Additional as well as Natural Source of Different Economic Products from Palms in South Bengal 17. Ethno-Nutritious Self-Made Baby Food from Paschim Medinipur 18. The Natural Method of Healing of Ethnic People Through Soil Therapy and Hydrotherapy 19. Natural Method of Healing of Ethnic Groups Through Common Practices and Dietotherapy 20. Apiphilic Plants in Agro-Forestry for Bee Management 21. Medicinal Plants Used for Treatment of Diabetes by the Tribal Peoples of Bankura, Purulia and Medinipur of West Bengal 22. Cows (Bos indicus. Make Medicine for Mankind 23. Pest Management Practices Through Biocides 24. Indigenous Method for Lustry Building by Natural Components 25. Ecophilic Fuels for Rail Engines and Automobiles 26. Wood-Ash - The Natural Preserver 27. Natural Way of Sugarcane Cultivation Through Dew-Trapping Process 28. Tailoring of Haulms Serve as a Natural Remedy Against Late Blight of Potato and Natural Resource for Bio-Fertilizer 29. The Naturally Cultivated and Processed Groundnut Milk is the Alternative of Cow Milk 30. Seriphilic Plants in Agro-Forestry 31. The New Sweety Natural Safe Beverage Yielding Plant of Bengal 32. Hitherto Untapped Plantlore from Bengal 33. Sapling of Bamboos Through Nodal Cuttings in Bengal 34. Senescence Retardant and Antioxidant Potential Plants 35. Natural Dye-Yielding Plants from West Bengal 36. Effect of Natural Bio-Fertilizer on Kendu (Diospyros exsculpta) Leaves. IV. Glossary For Medical Terms References Index 1. Plant Index 2. Animal Index 3. Disease Index
The erosion of knowledge is an every more serious threat than the erosion of biodiversity. Keeping in view in this book effort has been made to unveil the indigenous knowledge. The present book is a mirror of the traditional efforts for the utilization of natural resources. There is a great deal of information available in the book which needs to go back to farmers, pastoralists, potters, dye makers, sweat makers, beekeepers, accupresurits, sacred grove conservators, herbalists and people interested in nature. This will help them to know how the external world interprets their knowledge and uses it.
This book contains 48 articles on different aspects (e.g. self made baby food, senescence, pollution, biological control, etc.
Particularly the book focuses on building lateral learning links not only among the innovators but also among scientists and public policy makers at national and international level.
