Himalayan Medicinal Plants: Potential and Prospects

The book entitled ‘Himalayan Medicinal Plants: Potential and Prospects’ is the outcome of the workshop organized by G.B. Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment & Development, Kosi-Katarmal, Almora. The book includes inaugural address, Keynote address and 26 papers of the experts working in different biogeographic provinces of the Himalaya and covers the following themes: Status of Himalayan medicinal plants: Inventory, folk and ethnobotany. Population studies of threatened medicinal plants. Current status of propagation methods. Cultivation and domestication Utilization, extraction and phytochemical investigations. In addition, the volume provides valuable heads in the form of recommendations, which are the outcome of the issues discussed at the end of each Technical Session and also, the inputs given by the experts in the draft manuscript of the recommendations. The editors hope that the volume would be of immense help to all workers interested in the identified priority areas and also, to farmers, planners, conservationists, students and teachers.