The Herbal Flora of Assam and North-Eastern India

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The entire Northeastern region of India which includes Assam and the neighbouring States is known to be the home of thousands of species of the rare and valuable herbal flora of the world, having great aromatic, medicinal, culinary and cosmetic values. â€œHerbâ€ is a cultural rather than a botanical definition and means the useful flora for mankind. Herbs cover the breadth of the entire plant kingdom, right from the giant conifers to mosses, algae and the tiny yeast. This book enumerates around 250 species of herbs, with considerable commercial values, from Indiaâ€™s Northeastern States including the adjoining Himalayan kingdoms and the adjoining Himalayan kingdoms and Eastern Myanmar, besides some from around the country. Black and white photographs are provided for most of the species and sketches by the author are also included. In the text, the introduction provides a historical account of the herbal remedies referring to the ancient Chinese and Indian healing systems i.e. Taoist philosophy and Ayurveda. Some additional accounts of making potpourri, extraction of aromatic essential oils from different herbs, and about herbal remedies for certain major human diseases and illnesses, as well as the toxic nature of some herbs are also detailed. This book means to create a general awareness about the great potential benefits of the herbs and the prospect of developing herb-based industries in the region. Also to inculcate an interest for their proper conservation and cultivation, and the commercialization prospects of different herbal products amongst the people of North East India in particular. Bound to be a useful reference tool among Ayurvedic practitioners, amateur growers as well as researchers and the experienced herb enthusiast.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR S.N. Sharma

Sudhindra Nath Sharma, M.Sc., FRHS, is a nature scientist with over four decades of varied experiences in the field of applied life sciences. Environmental protection, pest control operations, horticultural landscaping as well as the culture and cultivation of orchids, and other useful herbal flora of the Northeast Indian States have sustained his interest all along. After obtaining his M.Sc. degree from A.M.U. in 1951 he initially taught life sciences in Cotton College, Cuwahati, and later at the Assam Agricultural College (now University), until 1959. Here he was closely associated with some research projects and published several papers and articles. Thereafter, between 1960 and 1987, he served as a Senior Executive of the erstwhile Assam Oil Company/Burmah Oil Company Ltd., Digboi (Assam), which later became IOC Ltd. (Assam Oil Division) in 1981. Here he served in various departments like Marketing, Administration, Industrial Relations and Refinery Operations. Associated with the Horticultural and Orchid Societies of Digboi and Duliajan (Oil India) and the tea circles of the Upper Assam districts. Widely travelled abroad between 1992 and 2001, he and his wife jointly acquired adequate knowledge in USA and the UK on the culture and propagation of orchids and some useful aromatic and medicinal plants of those countries. He is a Fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society of London, besides, he and his wife are also members of the Horticultural Societies of UK and India. He is presently working on another publication entitled-"Some Beautiful Orchids of Assam and other Northeast Indian States.