Indian Folk Medicine
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The value and importance of traditional knowledge are being increasingly realized the worldover. India has been known to be a rich repository of medicinal plants. The pharmaceutical industry continue to investigate and confirm the efficacy of many medicines used by traditional communities. It is estimated that about 75 per cent of the 120 biologically active plant derived compounds presently in use worldwide have been derived through follow-up researches to verify the authenticity of data from folk and ethnomedicinal uses. So, there is a great scope of new drug discoveries based on traditional plant user.
The book contains 21 chapters covering information on medicinal plants with special reference to the Indian scenario. Book contain articles on Hepatoprotective activity of medicinal plants, Oral healthcare and plants, Potential wound healers from plant origin, Medicinal plants for fertility control and Plants used against diabetes. A comprehensive account of medicinal uses of Neem, Garlic, Jamun, Holoptelia integrifolia, Nyctanthes arbor-tristis, Trachyspermum ammi have added to the value of the book. In addition, articles on Conservation and cultivation of medicinal plants, Status and conservation of threatened medicinal herbs, Plant and plant products used in gastric and duodenal ulcers, Medicinal palms of Kerala, Medicinal Monocots of U.P., Sacred Forest, Antifungal activity of Phyllanthus amarus and Tapping traditional knowledge of medicinal plants have been included in the book.
This book provides adequate background and current information on medicinal plants. Book will be very useful for a variety of scholars—historians and practitioners of medicine, researchers in botany, phytochemistry and pharma-cology and also phytogeographers and conservationists."
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| Author | P. C. Trivedi |
| Binding | Hardcover |
| Edition | 1 |
| ISBN | 978-81-7132-521-4 |
| Language | English |
| Number Of Pages | xvi+344 |
| Publication Year | 2007 |
| Publisher | Pointer Publishers, Jaipur |