Today, the world witnesses a global resurgence of interests in plant-based drugs and cosmetics. The revival of traditional health care systems, which is mainly plant-based, has several ramifications including the challenging tasks of meeting the health care needs of the ever increasing human population. Since the majority of raw material for preparing herbal medicine is exploited from the wild and also the traditional practices of medicinal plants harvesting does not remain sustainable due to commercial interests, the loss of medicinal plants is unprecedented. People across the world use medicinal plants in several health care practices, and the loss of this valuable resource has direct bearings on these traditional health care systems. This book deals with multidisciplinary approach and contains information on different aspects of medicinal plants, which can be used as guiding tools.
Author(s): Chandra Prakash Kala
Series: Pharmacology - Research, Safety Testing and Regulation
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: xii+280
Introduction
A. Medicinal Plants Conservation and Cultivation Strategies
1. The system of caraway (Carum carvi L.) production in the Czech Republic
(Gabriela Rùžièková, Antonín Vaculík, Prokop Šmirous, Blanka Kocourková)
2. Sustainable agriculture for medicinal plants
(Ricardo Gomez-Flores and Patricia Tamez-Guerra)
3. Setting conservation priorities for medicinal and other ethnobotanical resources: Case study of Kachchh district, Gujarat, India
(Arun M Dixit and Chandra S. Silori)
4. Cultivation of Saussurea costus and Inula racemosa in cold desert of the Lahaul valley: revival of cultivation needed for their conservation and protection
(Yashwant S. Rawat and Subhash C.R. Vishvakarma)
5. Propagation and cultivation techniques for Heracleum candicans Wall.: a Himalayan medicinal resource in peril
(Jitendra S. Butola; S.S Samant; Rajiv K. Vashistha and A.R. Malik)
B. Medicinal Plants: Technological and Scientific Interventions
6. Influence of Pre-Sowing Dormancy Breaking Treatments on Germination of Medicinally Important Species of the Family Solanaceae From Pakistan
(Zubaida Yousaf; Uzma Hussain and Aisha Anjum)
7. In-vitro cytotoxicity of some medicinal plants used in traditional medicine in Tanzania
(Daniel P. Kisangau; K. M. Hosea; C. C. Joseph; L. N. Bruno, K. P. Devkota, T. Bogner and N. Sewald)
8. Mycorrhizal inoculation of some high value medicinal plants: Field trials and effect on the bioactive phyto-constituents
(Yudhvir K. Bhoon)
9. Phytoplasma on Medicinal Plants: Detection, Diversity and Management
(Yamini Chaturvedi, Madhupriya and G.P. Rao)
10. Morphological marker for characterization of two important endangered Himalayan medicinal plants: Swertia chirayita and S. angustifolia
(Arvind Bhatt and A.K. Bisht)
11. Aconitum naviculare: a threatened and endemic medicinal plant of the Himalaya
(Bharat Babu Shrestha and Stephano Dall’Acqua)
C. Indigenous Knowledge on Medicinal Plants
12. Do animals eat what we do?: observations on medicinal plants used by humans and animals of Mundanthurai range, Tamil Nadu
(Jayanti Ray Mukherjee, J. Ronald, G. S. Rawat, V. Chelladurai, J. P. Mani, M. A. Huffman)
13. Diversity of endemic medicinal plants in Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, Southern India
(M. Ayyanar and S. Ignacimuthu)
14. Indigenous knowledge of medicinal plants among rural communities of Dhutatoli forest range in Pauri district, Uttarakhand, India
(P.C. Phondani, R.K. Maikhuri, C.S. Negi; C.P. Kala; M.S. Rawat and N.S. Bisht)
15. Use of Medicinal Plants for Curing Urogenital Disorders
(Chandra Prakash Kala)
D. Medicinal Plants and Sustainable Development
16. Community based enterprises, local health care promotion and women empowerment: An innovative case study from southern India
(Maria Costanza Torri, Thora Martina Herrmann; Maria Luiza Schwarz)
17. Sustainable development of medicinal plants and livelihood opportunities
(Chandra Prakash Kala)
18. Conservation and Cultivation of Medicinal Plants for Sustainable Development in Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve, Uttarakhand, India
(L.S. Kandari; K.S. Rao; R. K. Maikhuri and Abhishek Chandra)
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