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Man has been using plants for healing purposes since time immemorial. All ancient civilizations have referred to medicinal plants, but the knowledge on medicinal plants has accumulated fast over the last few centuries. In the past few decades, plant scientists and chemists have put in a great deal of interest and efforts to identify the active ingredients of traditional or folk herbal medicines as therapeutic agents.
This book is an attempt to bring together the ...
Gradual changes in the environment have borne tremendous impact on growth performance of plants, which has been duly documented. However, it seems that properties of medicinal plants in relation to environmental changes are yet to be evaluated as thoroughly as to satisfy a variety of relevant queries and concerns. This book, Medicinal Plants in Changing Environment, comprising 17 chapters on relevant topics contributed by experts of the subject in question. This ...
The book in hand, comprising 27 chapters prepared by leading subject experts in the country, addresses the diversities of environmental contamination, evaluates the problems and disturbances which they cause to the biotic as well as abiotic components of the ecosystem, and indicates strategies that are being developed to salvage the situation. The chapters dealing with the general aspects of environment and pollution are given in the beginning, followed by ...