Tribal Medicinal Plants of Tripura, India: A Scientific Search

The book primarily demonstrates the potentiality of folk ethno-botanical information and traditional medicinal plants in modern medical sciences. There are a plethora of ethnic community in North East India and their medicinal knowledge particularly plant based information can be a valuable source for new drug investigation. The research works which has been described in this book is timely and apporpriate for a large audience,researchers, botanists, faculties and students. Many of the applications included in this book like gathering folk information and their systemic scientific investigation can provide readers sufficient background about the methods, hopefully to initiate projects.