Indian Medicinal Plants: Uses and Propagation Aspects
Indian Medicinal Plants: Uses and Propagation Aspects by Srinath Rao and Akula Ramakrishna
English | October 27, 2020 | ISBN: 0367432145 | 328 pages | EPUB | 24 MB
English | October 27, 2020 | ISBN: 0367432145 | 328 pages | EPUB | 24 MB
The demand for medicinal plants is increasing, and this leads to unscrupulous collection from the wild and adulteration of supplies. Providing high-quality planting material for sustainable use and thereby saving the genetic diversity of plants in the wild is important. In this regard, the methods of propagation of some important medicinal plants are provided along with the traditional methods of propagation. Indian Medicinal Plants: Uses and Propagation Aspects offers a unique compendium of more than 270 medicinal plant species from India with detailed taxonomic classifications based on the Bentham and Hooker system of classification.
Salient Features:
Provides traditional methods of propagation and discusses the propagation of medicinal plants
Presents plant properties, plant parts and chemical constituents
Describes the medicinal uses of more than 270 medicinal plant species from India
This book is of special interest to practitioners of alternative medicine, students of Ayurveda, researchers and industrialists associated with medical botany, pharmacologists, sociologists and medical herbalists.