Medicinal Plants and Benefits

This book includes vernacular names, description, distribution, part use, utilization, active principles, agronomic practices, and colour plates. Separate chapters on organic farming, bio-fertilizers, and biopesticides uses for sustainable cultivation of medicinal plants, tips for medicinal plants cultivation and meltitire agriculture systems of medicinal plants have been presented. The present book aims to acquaint readers with the advances that have been taking place in the field of medicinal plants particularly within the context of new age medicines. The book delineates not just conventional practices techniques and treatments associated with medicinal plants but also give space to understand the challenges and issues and how current trends and advances are making progress to address them. The book also brings within its purview the use in history of medicinal plants its progress and decline the competition faced from allopathic drug treatment with an emphasis on its continuity and contemporary revival.

Contents: *; Introduction *; Medicinal Plants and Its Benefits *; Medicinal Plants: Its Uses and Benefits *; Medicinal Plants Used in Medicine *; Ethnobotariical Approach to Drug Discovery *; Medicinal Plants in Ayurveda *; Cultivation of Medicinal Plants *; Medicinal and Aromatic Plants *; Medicinal Plants and Herbs