Medicinal and Aromatic Plants: Exploration and Utilization

Contents: 1. The genus Cinnamomum Schaeffer (Lauraceac) from North-east India/Akhil Baruah and Subhan C. Nath. 2. Rosemary (Rosmarinus oficinalis L.) Essential Oil/Ram Swaroop Verma, Rajendra Chandra Padalia and Amit Chauhan. 3. Cymbopogon: A genus of industrially important crops and fragrant products/Virendra S. Rana. 4. Essential oils – Chemistry and importance/T.C. Sarma. 5. Natural Anti HIV terpenes and sterols of terrestrial and marine origin/Mahesh Pal, Tripti Mishra, Rajani Singh, Anil Kumar and S.K. Tewari. 6. Indian Valerian: a high valued medicinal crop with immense therapeutic potential/Jayashankar Das, Sandhya Thapa and Sunil S. Thorat. 7. Genus Chlorophytum Ker Gawl: Ancient medicinal plant from Indian hills/Kunal Kale and Prashant Thakare. 8. Swertia chirayita: revisiting the potential bio-resource and therapeutic applications/Sunil S. Thorat, Jayashankar Das, Jitendra Shukla and Shantanu Shukla. 9. Scope and status of ethnomedicine research in Northeast India: An overview/Ashish Kar. 10. Ethno-medico-botany and utilization aspects of some medicinal and aromatic plants: a review/Akhil Baruah. 11. An insight into the phytochemistry and biological potential of eucalyptus citriodora hook/S. Ravi Kiran, B.S.Ravi Kumar, K.J. Janardhan Reddy and B.R. Rajeshwara Rao. 12. Chemical diversity in the essential oils of ‘tejpat’ resources growing in Northeast India/Akhil Baruah and Subhan C. Nath. 13. Cymbopogon flexuosus L. (Steud) – a new report of numerical variation of anthers in floral morphology/B.C. Baruah. 14. Litsea cubeba pers, from Northeast India – a review/Akhil Baruah. 15. Ethno-medicinal plants used against Jaundice by the ethnic communities of Assam/Ashish Kar. 16. A review on medico-ethnobotanical claims of Drymaria cordata willd.ex Roem and Schult. (Caryophyllaceae) from North east India with rationale to biological activities/Devanjal Bora, J. Kalita, D.R. Das and Subhan C. Nath. 17. A review on medicinal plants with potential anti-malarial activity used by different tribes of North East India/Utpal Phukan. 18. Indigenous knowledge of starter culture of Rice-beer Produced by the Mishing tribe of Golaghat and Lakhimpur districts of Assam with reference to other tribes/Akhil Baruah, Jayanta Sonowal and Khereswar Loying. 19. Medicinal plants used in cosmetics and hair care of North East India/Rumi Kotoky. 20. A review of Ethnobotany of Boro tribe of Assam, North East India/Anaru Bora. 21. Harvest management of Patchouli (Pogostemon cablin (Blanco) Benth.)/Minuara Begum. 22. Aromatic and Spice plant diversity in Northeast India: Industrial values and Conservation Status/Akhil Baruah.