Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants
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Plants have been utilized by man to meet his daily requirements since ancient times. As civilisation progressed, humans learnt the use of plants for their health care also. Since both man and plants co-evolved together, many of their constituents are similar in nature and therefore certain plant compounds have been found to cure specific human diseases. Traditional and folklore medicinal systems of India are very rich in knowledge on the plants as drugs. This ...
A variety of essential oils yielded by as many aromatic plants are used in large amounts as fragrance and flavour materials and in pharmaceutical and agrichemical industry. Such essential oil bearing plants have been developed into industrial crops. In recent years, India has become one of the leading producing, exporting and user country of essential oils. Sophisticated agrotechnologies are required for the economic production of quality essential oils. A large ...
In constant effort to improve the quality of life, man has used plants as source of food, shelter, clothing, medicine, and cosmetics and for seeking relief from hardship of life. While all plants synthesize some amount of aromatic compounds in their different parts, some plants including the so called aromatic grasses belonging to the genus Cymbopogon accumulate such large amounts of them in leaves, inflorescences, and/or in roots that these can be obtained as ...
The present volume is an attempt to update the existing literature and provide an authentic list of medicinal plants of India along with their vernacular names, chemical constituents, traditional uses as well as biological activities. It has also been tried to include as many traditional uses as have been reported in the literature so as to help the future research workers in testing and finding out whether the folk claims or traditional medicinal claims are ...
The book presents a plant-wise account including for each its botanical name and family, common and trade names, a brief botanical description, flowering and fruiting times, the distribution of the plant in the country on the basis of literature and herbarium collections and the distribution in other countries. The distribution of each plant species in India has also been depicted in a map. Based on a literature survey of the chemical and biological activities ...
A number of books have been written on medicinal plants of India. All of them, except two exhaustive volumes published by Indian Council of Medical Research, are too old and have become outdated because of considerable research on these plants during the last 25 years. All these volumes, whether old or new, have presented a large list of 1,000 or more plants and the list includes a fairly large number of food crops like wheat, rice, peas, sugarcane, and even ...
The knowledge about the use of plants in skin care lies scattered in various treatises of Ayurveda, Siddha, Tibetan and Unani system of medicine and in the recent research publications in the current scientific literature. A need was felt to compile some of this information relating to skin care at one place for ready use in the R&D and by common people. An attempt of this kind has been made here and this book contains brief descriptions about skin, hair, ...
Knowledge base of Ayurveda is a product of many centuries of actual experience. This knowledge can be converted into new effective non-traditional formulations. Traditional formulations may prove effective against disease conditions that are now well defined. Single and multiple active principles responsible for the curative effect ascribed in Ayurveda or against new conditions may get defined. Ayurvedic knowledge may be recombined with other traditional or new ...
Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera) has been used as medicine and cultivated for centuries in India . Its roots are known to posses restorative and adaptogenic properties, of the type ascribed to Ginseng roots. This book comprehensively compiles the information about Ashwagandha plant available in the traditional and present literature, covering more than 585 references. This publication will be useful to persons interested in the use of plant materials as medicine ...