Medicinal Plants: Ethnobotanical Approach
Contents: 1. Utilisation and development of drugs from medicinal plants/B.A. Nagasampagi. 2. Cancer chemopreventive agents from medicinal plants/L. Manikandan, G.P. Senthilkumar, L.T. Rajesh and R. Suresh. 3. Antidiabetic medicinal plants/Sandip B. Bharate and Gnana Oli R. 4. Recent developments in antitubercular natural products/Gnana Oli R. and Sandip B. Bharate. 5. Germacranolides from selected compositae plants and their taxonomic significance/Pahup Singh and Venu Sharma. 6. Assessment and conservation of medicinal plant wealth of Haryana/S. Kumar and Paradhi Nagiyan. 7. Medicinal plants and their local uses in sub-Himalayan tract of Uttaranchal/Harish Singh. 8. Hepatoprotective medicinal plants from the Darjeeling Himalaya/D.R. Chhetri, J. Adhikari and S. Adhikari. 9. Ethnobotanical studies on indigenous medicinal plants used by immigrant Muslims of Bongaigaon District, Assam/S. Sarkar and C.M. Sarma. 10. Ethnomedicines of the Sonowal Kacharis of Brahmaputra Valley, Assam, India/Dilip Kalita and Tamuli Surajit. 11. Ethno-medico botany of the Shyams of Assam, India/S.C. Nath, M.L. Dutta and J. Purkayastha. 12. Important herbal remedies from the folklore of Uttaranchal and their pharmaceutical applications/K.R. Arya. 13. Ethnomedicinal studies on sub-Himalayan forests of North Eastern U.P/M. Jaish Beg, M.Z. Beg and S.J. Ali. 14. Wealth of unexplored Vedic knowledge for present day clinical management of poisonous snake bite/S.K. Shrivastava, A.C. Shrivastava, N. Mishra, S. Kumar and R. K. Pradhan. 15. Prevention of and treatment for hyperlipidemia with nutraceuticals and herbal drugs/S. Ambili and A. Subramoniam. 16. Mineral nutrition of medicinal plants -- a review/M. Masroor A. Khan and Firoz Mohammad. 17. Anti aids plant drugs/S.H. Ansari. 18. A study on ethnomedicinal uses of plants among the Meena Tribe of Jaipur District of Rajasthan, India/Manjeet S. Shekhawat, M.K. Sharma and P.C. Trivedi. Subject index.
"About eighty per cent of the world population depends on traditional medicines for primary health care. Herbal medicines are in great demand in both developed and the developing countries in primary health care because of their great efficacy and little or no side effects. The revival of interest in plant-based drugs have necessitated and increased demand of medicinal plants leading to over exploitation, unsustainable harvesting and finally to the virtual decimation of several valuable plant species in the wild. The Indian systems of medicine have identified 1,500 medicinal plants, of which 500 species are commonly used in the preparation of ISM and H drugs.
This book provide authentic information on medicinal plants with an ethnobotanical approach. Book will be very useful for a variety of scholars Ayurvedic and medical people, botanist, pharmacologist, ethnobotanist, phytochemist and conservationist." (jacket)
