Dictionary of Medicinal Plants

Medicinal plants are a boon to human kind in a concealed but potent form. The quest for medicinal plants by man had a long antecedent history ever since the dawn of human civilization. Ethnobotany or tribal medicine or birth of Ayurveda dates back to thousands of years. Chemical compounds present in various plants are enormous and man has been tapping the medicinal uses of these compounds by various methods and curing many human diseases. In the present day, though allopathic medicines are greatly used by doctors, still specific diseases are cured only by natural herbal medicines, like jaundice and many more diseases. India and china are known for their antiquity in herbal medicine or Ayurvedic medicine. There has been tremendous research going on to lap the natural resources in developing herbal medicine. It is with this purpose that the present compilation has been attempted to present all the available material on medicinal plants, their chemical constituents and their mode of action on man for specific diseases and their curative action. The book will be of immense use to pharmacists, doctors of Homeopathy, Ayurvedic, herbal medicine, and to all students interested in medicinal plants. The present book ‘Dictionary of Medicinal Plants’ will be useful to doctors, pharmacists, chemists, industrialists, and students of botany. The present book, though not comprehensive, tries to present a large number of species available with medicinal use and represents a large extent of worked out examples.