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Plants and drugs obtained from them have always been in the centre of all the traditional and modern systems of medicine including Allopathy, Homoeopathy, Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani schools of healing. Scholars of these different pathies have published therapeutics of plants with their own point of view. No efforts seems to have been made to bring medicinal and spiceal plants useful in different pathies at common platform. Endeavour made through this book is ...
Man has now realized the limitation and shortcomings of medicines developed by chemical processes as indicated by side and ill effects. Hence, the scope of medicinal plants and spices has widened for different systems of medicine. Besides domestication and cultivation technologies, economic parts of plants need to be processed at primary, secondary and tertiary channels. Such agroprocessing strategies are required for preparing medicines of Allopathy, Ayurveda, ...
Medicinal herbs and spices find their use in all systems of medicine. However, the major part of the raw material requirements of pharmaceutical industries is still met out of herbs collected from wild resources. This leads to biodiversity and environmental degradation. To meet such challenges, an equilibrated approach for domestication and cultivation of otherwise, wild medicinal plants and spices is imperative. Very scanty information on such aspects are ...