Medicinal Plants: Ethnobotanical Approach

The present book "Medicinal Plants: Ethnobotanical Approach" contain 18 articles covering information on medicinal plants and their utilisation with special reference to the Indian scenario. Book covers articles on utilisation and development of drugs from medicinal plants; cancer chemopreventive agents, anti-aid and antidiabetic plants; recent developments in antitubercular natural products and Hepatoprotective plants. Articles on assessment and conservation of medicinal plants; Mineral nutrition of medicinal plants and treatment of hyperlipidemia with nutraceuticals and herbal drugs have added to the value of the book. Information on medicinal plants used by ethnic tribes viz. immigrant muslims; in Brahmaputra valley of Assam; by people of Uttaranchal; by North Eastern tribes of sub-Himalayan Forest and Meena tribes of Rajasthan, India.

1.Utilisation and Development of Drugs from Medicinal Plants

2.Cancer Chemopreventive Agents from Medicinal Plants

3.Antidiabetic Medicinal Plants

4.Recent Developments in Antitubercular Natural Products

5.Germacranolides from Selected Compositae Plants and their Taxonomic Significance

6.Assessment and Conservation of Medicinal Plant Wealth of Haryana

7.Medicinal Plants and their Local Uses in Sub-Himalayan Tract of Uttaranchal

8.Hepatoprotective Medicinal Plants from the Darjeeling Himalaya

9.Ethnobotanical Studies on Indigenous Medicinal Plants Used By Immigrant Muslims for Bongaigaon District, Assam

10.Ethnomedicines of the Sonowal Kacharis of Brahmaputra Valley, Assam, India

11.Ethno-Medico Botany of the Shyams of Assam, India

12.Important Herbal Remedies from the Folklore of Uttaranchal and their Pharmaceutical Applications

13.Ethnomedicinal Studies on Sub-Himalayan Forests of North Eastern UP

14.Wealth of Unexplored Vedic Knowledge for Present Day Clinical Management of Poisonous Snake Bite

15.Prevention of and Treatment for Hyperlipidemia with Nutraceuticals and Herbal Drugs

16.Mineral Nutrition of Medicinal Plants - A Review

17.Anti Aids Plant Drugs

18.A Study on Ethnomedicinal Uses of Plants Among the Meena Tribe of Jaipur District of Rajasthan, India

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