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From the Preface: "Medicinal plants remain the main source of medicines for a large proportion of the world's population particularly in the developing world, despite the advent of the pharmaceutical chemistry during the early twentieth century which has brought with it the ability to synthesize enormous variety of medicinal drug molecules and allowed the treatment of previously incurable and/or life threatening diseases.
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The raw material of the plants is procured from the field, from at least three geographical locations and authenticated. The samples are worked out for their pharmacognostic and phytochemical features through experiments while the information on the distribution of the plants, vernacular names, chemical constituents, pharmacological activity, safety aspects, clinical studies if any, therapeutic claims and any other details are derived from the published ...
From the introduction: "The present volume is the third of the series of Reviews on Indian Medicinal Plants comprising 33 plant genera comprising 163 species from Areca - Azima.
The Monographs cover largely the studies on Indian medicinal plants conducted by scientists in Indian institutions and published in national and international journals. At places work done by Indian scientists in collaboration with foreign laboratories or carried out exclusively in ...