Principles and Practices of Herbal Garden

by B.C. Mazumdar, Paramita Mitra Mukhopadhyay

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Although medicinal plants attach a great importance in India where people belonged to different sections regard them as efficacious agents to combat many aliments, well-timed procurement of these materials faces difficulty in many parts of the country as regular cultivation of them is not widely practiced. Relatively small sized plantations may however, be set up by individuals or organizations for the purpose of meetings their own requirements as well as to those of the neighboring people. In such type of herbal gardens, culture of the plants is beyond doubt, to be carried out in a specialized manner, taking care to avoid contact with agents that are liable to cause pollution and thereby, health hazard. Having centred attention on this aspect, the present title has made an attempt to bring forward the principles and management of such gardens including the cultural procedure of some notable common medicinal plants. This apart, the title has also enlisted the principal medicinal properties associated with these plants.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR B.C. Mazumdar

Prof. Bibhas Chandra Mazumdar has been in the profession of teaching and supervising researches on fruit culture, growth and developmental physiology of crop plants and biochemistry of fruit crops in some Indian Universities since the year 1971 after his doctoral degree on biochemistry of growth, flowering and fruiting of mango cultivars. Major areas of his researches in teaching career include growth and developmental aspects of fruit crops, pectic metabolism, plant physiology, papaya latex and on less-exploited minor fruit crops grown in India. In the area on physiology and biochemistry of fruit growth, a number of his research contributions are considered to be of fundamental importance. He has so far to his credit 5 text books on fruit crops and horticulture and 129 research papers published in the journals of India, U.S.A. and U.K. as well as 17 scientific articles brought out in the magazines of India and the U.K. in the same areas.