Indian Herbs for Touch Therapy, Tattooing and Adornments

by Vipula Sharma, Romita Sharma, SK Sood, Suresh Kumar, T N Lakhanpal

ISBN: 9789351301141
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Imprint : Daya Publishing House
Year : 2021
Price : Rs. 10995.00
Biblio : x+316p., 12 col., plts., tabls.,bib., appendices, Ind., 25 cm

Author Profile

Dr. S.K. Sood is Professor and Dean, Life Sciences, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla. His current major interests are in the theory and practice of systematic, flora of North – West Himalaya, ethnic tribes and conservation research.

About The Book

The present manual, the most comprehensive publication in the field so far, affords scientists, researchers, students and layman alike valuable updated interdisciplinary information from disparate Indian sources on 440 herbs used for touch therapy, tattooing and adornments by various ethnic communities to form a highly structured referenced work of great help to the world at large with details of current nomenclature, English, Hindi and Sanskrit names, distribution, reproductive cycle, part(s) used, folk use(s), active constituents and the original source of information. Besides easy-to-understand textural matter, inclusion of 1 pie chart, 7 histograms, 31 photographs and 20 useful appendices are the other significant features of the present work. Hopefully, this monographic information source will serve as a multidisciplinary ready reckoner to ethnobotanists, medical practitioners, students, researchers, pharmacists, scientists and teachers as well as other readers interested in the fields of ethnomedicine and adornments.

Table of Contents

Preface v <BR> Abbreviations ix <BR> NTRODUCTION 1–7 <BR> Essential Oils 1 <BR> Perfumery 4 <BR> Cosmetics 5 <BR> Current Status on Perfumery and Beauty Care 5 <BR> Enumeration 7 <BR> INDIAN HERBS FOR PERFUMERY AND BEAUTY CARE 9–349 <BR> EPILOGUE 351–357 <BR> LITERATURE CITED 359–378 <BR> APPENDICES 379–400 <BR> Appendix–I: Index to Total Number of Indian Genera and <BR> Species of Perfumery and Beauty Care Under Various Divisions of Plant Kingdom 381 <BR> Appendix–II: Index to Families of Perfumery and Beauty Care 386 <BR> Appendix–III: Index to Predominant Dicot Families 394 <BR> Appendix–IV: Index to Predominant Monocot Families 395 <BR> Appendix–V: Index to Predominant Genera of Indian Perfumery and Beauty Care 396 <BR> Appendix–VI: Index to Predominant Genera of Perfumery 399 <BR> Appendix–VII: Index to Predominant Genera for Toothcare Management 400 <BR> INDEX TO SPECIES USED IN PERFUMERY AND BEAUTY CARE 401–407 <BR> INDEX TO SPECIES USED IN TOOTHCARE 409–412 <BR> INDEX TO BOTANICAL NAMES 413–421 <BR> INDEX TO ENGLISH NAMES 423–434 <BR> INDEX TO HINDI NAMES 435–448 <BR> INDEX TO SANSKRIT NAMES 449–460