The Value and importance of traditional knowledge are being increasingly realized the worldover. India has been known to be a rich repository of medicinal plants. The pharmaceutical industry continue to investigate and confirm the efficacy of many medicines used by traditional communities. It is estimated that about 75 per cent of the 120 biologically active plant derived compounds presently in use worldwide have been derived through follow-up researches to verify the authenticity of data from folk and ethnomedicinal uses. So, there is a great scope of new drug discoveries based on traditional plant user. The book contains 21 chapters covering information on medicinal plants with special reference to the Indian scenario. Book contain articles on hepatoprotective activity of medicinal plants, Oral healthcare and plants, Potential would healers from plant origin, medicinal plants for fertility control and Plants used against diabetes. A comprehensive account of medicinal uses of neem, Garlic jamun, Holoptelia integrifolia, Nyctanthes arbor-tristis, Trachyspermum ammi have added to the value of the book. In addition, articles on Conservation and cultivation of medicinal plants, Status and conservation of threatened medicinal herbs, Plant and plant products used in gastric and duodenal ulcers, medicinal Palms of kerala, medicinal Monocots of U.P., Sacred Forest, Antifungal activity of Phyllanthus amarus and tapping traditional knowledge of medicinal plants have been included in the book. This book provides adequate background and current information on medicinal plants. Book will be very useful for a variety of scholars -historians and practitioners of medicine, researchers in botany, phytochemistry and pharmacology and also phytogeographers and conservationists.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR P C Trivedi
Prof. Pravin Chandra Trivedi (b. 3 March 1953), Ph.D., Post-Doct. (U.S.A.), F.L.S. (London), F.B.S., F.P.S.I., F.B.R.S., F.M.A., F.E.S., F.N.R.S., F.I.A.A.T., Professor, Department of Botany, has a brilliant academic career standing first in all examinations. Prof. Trivedi served as Head, Department of Botany and Coordinator, P.G. Course in Biotechnology (2003-06); Director College Development Council (2001-04); Vice-Principal, Maharaja's College (2000-03) and is Member of BOS in eight universities. He worked as Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, U.S.A. in 1983-84. Prof. Trivedi has 33 years of teaching and research experience in the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. He has published more than 200 research papers and review articles in journals of repute. He has edited and written 86 books and guided 30 Ph.D. students. He has been the Principal Investigator of 20 major research projects funded by national organizations. He is an elected Fellow of nine reputed academic bodies. Dr. Trivedi visited several major research laboratories and delivered invited talks in many international conferences held in the U.S.A., Canada, the U.K., Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Japan, Denmark, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Singapore, Austria and Belgium. Prof. Trivedi is an elected Secretary of the Indian Botanical Society (2005-2007); Council Member of Indian Science Congress Association, Kolkata (2007-08) and a member of the editorial and advisory boards of eight reputed journals. For his research contribution he was awarded Scientist of the Year Award (2001); M.J. Narsimhan Award (2004) and Bioved Fellowship Award (2005). He has organized 15 national seminars and participated in many at national and international levels. His major research interest includes Plant Nematology, Medicinal Plants, Ethnobotany, Biodiversity Conservation and Biotechnology.
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