Herbal Therapy for Skin Afflictions

Contents: Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Traditional knowledge on medicinal plants used against skin afflictions/T.V.V. Seetharami Reddi, S. Prasanthi, K. Nagaiah, Ch. Saranmai and B.V.A. Ramarao Naidu. 2. Ethnomedical cure for common skin diseases/G.V. Gopal and S.P. Kulkarni. 3. Medicinal plants used in dermatology/G. Baskar Rajan, Irfan Ali Khan and Atiya Khanum. 4. Ethnomedicinally important plants used in the treatment of skin afflictions/Amia Tirkey, S.S. Khan and Fatima Khan.

"In the earliest times, healing was holistic in nature. It was also reliant on age old traditions, magic and mysticism. Gradually, mankind moved further testing different theories, evaluating different experiences and experimenting with trial and errors. Lastly, he reaches to as scientific phase as he became reason-minded. During this long course of journey, he forgot many things or perforce been neglecting historical developments especially in medicine. Our ancestors had a wide of medicinal herbs at their disposal, and that they likewise have in depth understanding of medicinal herbs. Even until the last century, every community, village or hamlets had a wealth of herbal folklore of common health problems. They used used them in the form of certain recipes like lotions, teas, poultices, ointment etc."