Medicinal Plants: Aspects and Prospects

by Kumar, Mukesh

ISBN: 9789351304425
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Imprint : Biotech
Year : 2021
Price : Rs. 13995.00
Biblio : xi+390p., 700 gms

About The Book

India has unique position in the world, where a number of traditional systems of medicines i.e. Ayurveda, Sidha, Unani, and Homoeopathy are practiced in health care system. All these systems predominately depend upon medicinal plants which provide materials for pharmaceutical industry as well as traditional forms of medicines, generate income and employment, and have implications for the conservation of biodiversity and traditional knowledge. The purpose behind the publication of this book in to make a general and scientific awareness among the public, students, researchers, farmers and scientists regarding judicious medicinal use as well as cultivation of the plants, and also to save our plant wealth for our future generation. Present volume contains 25 articles on medicinal plants covering wide variety of the topics. A perusal of various titles comprising the volume show that they cover the aspects related to the cultivation and propagation, tissue culture, biotechnology, ayurvedic use, ethnobotany, pharmacology, phytochemicals, control of household insects, economics and plant diversity. Besides, a separate chapter related to the medicinal use of algae has also been introduced. The book will therefore be very useful to botanists, agricultural scientists, ethnobotanists and students as well as researchers of plant sciences. The present volume will be of great service to the mankind and to bound to enlighten them in various directions related to the medicinal and ethnobotanical uses and commercial cultivation of the herbal medicines.

Table of Contents

Preface 1. Medicinal Plants: General Aspects and Prospects Mukesh Kumar and C.P. Shukla 2. Biotechnology for Medicinal and Aromatic Plants B.N. Pandey 3. Hepatoprotective Herbal Plants Siddhartha Singh, Subhadip Hajra, Archana Mehta and Pradeep Mehta 4. Indigenous Medicinal Plants of Garhwal Himalayas Used in the Preparation of Ayurvedic Medicines in Traditional Health Care System Rakhi Rawat and D.P. Vashistha 5. Manual for the Propagation and Cultivation of Medicinal Plants at Rohilkhand Region (U.P.) Beena Kumari and Mukesh Kumar 6. Ethnobotanical Notes on Alpine Medicinal Herbs of the Kedarnath Range of the Garhwal Himalayas Vaibhav Sharma, B.L. Sharma and K.A. Bharati 7. Spices and Condiments Used as Folk-Medicines by the Tribes of Uttarakhand Deepak Kumar, Deepika and Mukesh Kumar 8. Therapeutic Potential of Phytochemicals Jinu John, Pradeep Mehta and Archana Mehta 9. Ethnobotany of Some Medicinal Plants Used by Gujjar Tribe of Sub- Himalayan Tracts, Uttarakhand Jyotsana Sharma and R.M. Painuli 10. Influence of Medicinal Plant Products on Household Insects Kumud Rai, Anjali Khare and Bharat Bhushan 11. Potential Applications of Aloe vera Tourn. ex Linn.: An Increasingly Accepted Medicinal Plant Anjali Khare 12. Ethno-Taxonomical Studies on the Medicinal Plants of Nanda Devi National Park, Uttarakhand, India C.S. Rana, J.K. Tiwari and L.R. Dangwal 13. Economics of Plant Diversity of India: Medicinal Profile Deepak Kumar, Deepika and Bharat Bhushan 14. Notes on Some Common Medicinal Plants of Sikkim Himalayas and Pharmacological Support for their Traditional Uses Kumar Avinash Bharati, Manish Kumar Singh and Rajesh Kumar 15. Bio-Prospecting of Key Stone Species and Traditional Knowledge of Tribals Community at Vindhyan Region, Uttar Pradesh C.P. Shukla, A.K. Shukla and Kumud Rai 16. Anti-Urolithiatic Plants of District Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh Deepika, Deepak Kumar, Alka and P. Kumar 17. Pharmacognositc Evaluation of Curcuma longa Linn. A.K. Shukla, Maneesh Kumar and D.B. Singh 18. Quality Control of Therapeutics: An Approach to Development and Evaluation of Herbals Sandeep Tiwari, Ajay Shukla and J.P. Singh 19. In vitro Micropropagation and Secondary Metabolite Production in Medicinal Plants Hans R. Dhingra and Suresh C. Goyal 20. Neem (Azadirachta indica A. Juss.) A Versatile Tree Belonging to Indian Sub-Continent Swati Dhyani and Sadhna Tripathi 21. Medicinal Flora of Billawar Forest Division, Kathua District, Jammu Division, Jammu and Kashmir Bharat Bhushan, Mukesh Kumar and A.K. Sharma 22. Medicinal and Aromatic Flowering Plants of Uttarakhand: An Overview Rajesh Kumar, Manish Kumar Singh Prabhat Mudgal and Kumar Avinash Bharati 23. Enumeration of Medicinal Flora of District Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, India Rita, Anjali Khare and Bharat Bhushan 24. Algae: An Emerging Panacea Minhaj Akhtar Usmani, M.R. Suseela and Sarita Sheikh 25. Ashwagandha: Highly Potential Medicinal Plant Nishesh Sharma, Eapen P. Koshy and Manjul Dhiman Index