Contents: Foreword/Prof Richard Evans Schultes. Preface. Section I: Food: 1. Insect consumption as a mean of national identity/Julieta Ramos-Elorduy. 2. NATTO: Non-salted soybean fermentation in Tropical Asia/Yoshiko Yoshida. 3. Emergency food in Kautilya's Arthasatra--an ancient Sanskrit work/Priyadarsan Sensarma. 4. Wild edible plants of Mandi District in Northwest Himalaya/P.B. Singh. 5. Life support promising food plants among aboriginals of bastar (M.P), India/T.R. Sahu. 6. Wild edible plants in markets of Assam, India--an ethnobotanical investigation/S.K. Borthakur. 7. Importance of grasshoppers as traditional food in villages in Northern transvaal, South Africa/B.C.W. van der Waal. 8. Wild edible plants of Manipur, India/S.C. Sinha. 9. Ethnobotany of wild edible plants of Kerala, India/K. Radhakrishnan, A.G. Pandurangan & P. Pushpangadan. 10. Some lesser known edible plants among the tribals of Kerala, India/Jawahar C. Raveendran. 11. Emergency foods of the mixtec highlands (Mexico)/Esther Katz. 12. Utilisation of wild cereals by nomadic tuaregs in Gourma, Western Sahel/Britt Hveem, Gunnvor Berge & Drissa Diallo.

Section II: Health - Care: 13. Old lead : new drug : x, b Arteether: an effective blood schizontocidal agent for P. Falciparum Malaria/Omkar P. Asthana, J.S. Srivastava, A. Ghatak, R. Tripathi, G.P. Dutta, S.K. Mishra, B.S. Das, J.K. Patnaik & D.C. Jain. 14. Screening of Indian medicinal plants for antimicrobial activity/R. Valsaraj, P. Paushpangadan, U. Nyman, V.W. Smitt, A. Adsersen & L. Gudiksen. 15. Antimicrobial and antiviral studies on selected medicinal plants of Nepal/R.S. Taylor, N.P. Manandhar & G.H.N. Towers. 16. 'Picroliv'--from indigenous knowledge to modern drug/Shanta Mehrotra, A.K.S. Rawat & Usha Shome. 17. Antimicrobial metabolites from British Columbian Medicinal Plants: ethnopharmacology and phytochemistry/Geeta Saxena, R.E.W. Hancock & G.H.N. Towers. 18. Four candidate plant species for evaluation of anti-cancer property from adian tribals of Kerala, India/P.J.Mathew, P. Pushpangadan & C.M. Unnithan. 19. Seasonal variation in the chemical constituents of Bacopa Monnieri (L), a reputed traditional remedy/Subha Rastogi, B.N. Mehrotra & Dinesh K. Kulshreshtha. 20. Time-tested household herbal remedies/Usha Shome, A.K.S. Rawat & Shanta Mehrotra. 21. Traditional medicine in the sahel: plants used for healing in the malian Gourma, W. Africa/D. Diallo, B. Hveem & G. Berge. 22. Plants used as household remedies in India/M.V. Viswanathan & H.B. Singh. 23. Role of household remedies in primary health care/R.D. Dixit & D.C. Pal. 24. From ethnobiology to Ayurveda--the science of life/V.K. Joshi. 25. "The blisters": smallpox and an early case of Mayan self-help/Luisa Maffi. 26. Ethnomedical explanatory models and indigenous classification of mental illness among the Maya of highland chiapas, Mexico/Dorothy M. Castille & Elois Ann Berlin. 27. Ethnomedicobotany of dards tribe of gurez valley in Kashmir Himalaya/Virendra Singh. 28. Conservation of ethno-medicinal plants diversity of Garhwal Himalaya in India/B.S. Aswal. 29. Credibility of folk-claims in Northwestern Himalaya and Northeastern India/Arvind Saklani & S.K. Jain. 30. Plants in the welfare of tribal women and children in certain areas of Central India/V.K. Saini.

31. Ethnobotanical observations on Sonbhadra District of Southern Uttar Pradesh, India : utilization and conservation/K.K. Singh. 32. Some ethnomedicinal plants of Lalitpur District, Uttar Pradesh, India/Vinay Ranjan. 33. Belief and health care : A study among the Saoras of Koraput Dist. (Orissa)/Seema Malik. 34. Some medicinal plants used by tribals of Sundargarh District, Orissa, India/K.B. Satapathy & M. Brahmam. 35. Some promising medicinal plants among the tribes of bay Islands in bay of Bengal/B.K. Sinha. 36. Native phytotherapy among rural population of District Bhadrak, Orissa/R.D. Girach, Aminuddin, M. Ahmed, M. Brahmam & M.K. Misra. 37. Preliminary phytochemical studies of some folk medicines among chenchus of Andhra Pradesh/R.R. Venkata Raju. 38. Folk medicine of Kerala : A study on native traditional folk healing art and its practitioners/S. Rajasekaran, P. Pushpangadan & S.D. Biju. 39. Ethno-medico-botany of the Southern Western Ghats of India/A.N. Henry, V.B. Hosagoudar & K. Ravikumar. 40. Unrecorded medicinal uses of plants among Parambikulam triblas, Kerala, India/S.M. Rajendran & B.N. Mehrotra. 41. Folk medicinal plants used for family planning in India/V.K. Singh & Zaheer Anwar Ali. 42. Plants used by the tribals of North Indian plains for hair and scalp preparation/D.K. Banerjee & D.C. Pal. 43. Plants in ethnoveterinary practices in Darbhanga (North Bihar)/Sunita Mishra, Vidyanath Jha & Shakinath Jha. 44. Ethno-veterinary herbal medicines in Morena District of Madhya Pradesh, India/R.L.S. Sikarwar. 45. Ethnoveterinary medicine with special reference to cattle prevalent among the Nepalis of Assam, India/S.K. Borthakur & U.K. Sarma. 46. Investigation of some animal drugs (mammals) used by the tribal people in India/A.K. Ghosh & P.K. Maiti. 47. The products of animal origin as receipes in Ayurvedic Medicaments/V.N. Pandey. 48. Drugs of animal origin in Unani Medicine: The need for scientific evaluation/M.P. Sharma.

49. Use of certain animals and animal products in indigenous system of treatment in Assam, India/A. Dutta, Borkotoki, J. Kalita, D.K. Sharma & S. Borthakur. 50. Kallawaya-Bolivian herbalists: analysis of their medicinal plants for leads to Anti-HIV, Anti-Tumor, Anti-Chagas drugs/Joseph W. Bastien, Samia Abdel-Malek, Jia Qi, Manfred G. Reinecke, Thomas H. Corbett, Fred A. Valeriote, William F. Mahler, W. Edward Robinson, Jr. & Jaime Zalles-Asin. 51. Medicinal use of special pineresin among the P'urhepeche (Mexico)/Elisabeth Motte-Frorac. Section III: Conservation of Biodiversity: 52. Is biodiversity conserved by indigenous peoples?/Janis B. Alcorn. 53. The huanchaco extractive reserve : integrating environmental conservation and sustainable development in peru--a report/Gonzalo Castro, Victor Pulido, Thomas Valqui, Jorge Chavez & Bernardo Alba. 54. Re-establishing the link between rural women and forest biodiversity in Kenya/Gacheke Simons. 55. Important role of seafaring people of South Sulawesi in conservation of mango germ-plasm/Nengah Wirawan. 56. The conservation of freshwater turtles and the dwellers of the Amazonian Jau National Park (Brazil)/George Henrique Rebeto & Luciana Lugli. 57. Non-timber forest products and the challenge of sustainable forest management/Jeffrey Y. Campbell. 58. Management of 'Bhabhar;' grass under joint forest management/O.N. Kaul & Varsha Mehta. 59. Ethnobotany and conservation of medicinal plants by irulas of Nilgiri biosphere reserve/P. Balasubramanian & S.N. Prasad. 60. Biotechnology and Aquaculture and germplasm conservation in India/P. Das. 61. Conservation of cultural diversity of indigenous people essential for protection of biological diversity/Rajiv Kumar Sinha. 62. Strategies for sustainable use of threatened medicinal plant resources in Western Himalaya/M.K. Kaul. 63. Role of ethnobotany in the conservation and use of plant genetic resources in India/R.K. Arora.

64. Ethnobotany in mountain development and conservation/Pei Shengji. 65. Sacred groves for in situ conservation/V.D. Vartak. 66. Ethnobotanical studies in Nepal--conservation of economically important plants by rural people/Narayan P. Manandhar. 67. Traditional forage resources of India: exploitation potential/J.P. Singh & Vinod Shankar. 68. Role of indigenous people in the conservation of plant genetic resources/T. Ravishankar. 69. Indigenous agriculture and germplasm conservation in North Eastern region: an overview/Sudhir Kumar & S. Rajeshwari. 70. Attributes on utlity and scarcity of valerianaceae in India/Ved Prakash & B.N. Mehrotra. 71. Arunachal Pradesh, its people, ethnobotanical diversity and conservation/H.J. Chowdhery. 72. socio-economic and domestic utilization of forest tree resources by tribal communities in Maharashtra/Vinaya S. Ghate & V.D. Vartak. 73. Strategies for sustainable exploitation of ethnobotanical resources of the Nilgiri biosphere reserve, S. India/S.N. Prasad & P. Balasubramanian. 74. People in the parks: establishing sustainable resource utilisation from within Uganda's National Parks/R.G. Wild & J. Mutebi. 75. Studies of traditional tea-gardens of jinuo nationality, China/Long Chun-lin & Wang Jieru. 76. Role of tribals in preservation of sacred forests/Archana Godbole. 77. Religious forest patches among Mahadeo Koli tribal localities--social. cultural and environmental relationship/M.S. Kumbhojkar, A.S. Upadhye & D.K. Kulkarni. Section IV: Regional Studies: 78. Intercontinental comparative ethnobotanical studies--a case study from India & Brazil/S.K. Jain & Vera Froes Fernandes. 79. Ethnobotanical research and exchange between Vietnam and Brazil : ethnobotanical projects of the Brazilian team/G.C.C. Born, O.A. Favero & S. Pavan. 80. Indigenous people and forests : perspectives of an ethnobotanical study from Nagaland, North-East India/R.R. Rao.

81. Landmarks of Indian ethnobotany/Sudhir Chandra. 82. Plant motifs sculpted on Indian temples/Shakti M. Gupta. 83. Plants used as ethnomedicine and supplementary food by Gaddis of Himachal Pradesh, India/Brij Lal, S.K. Vats, R.D. Singh & Akshey K. Gupta. 84. Contribution to the ethnobotany of Darjeeling District, India/G.S. Yonzone, Aruna Yonzone & R.B. Bhujel. 85. Studies on certain ethnozoological aspects of adi tribes of Siang District, Arunachal Pradesh/Borang Asham. 86. Ethnobotanical studies among the Tanla of Malyagiri Hills in Dhenkanal District, Orissa, India/M. Brahmam, N.K. Dhal & H.O. Saxena. 87. Ethnobiological studies of Sahariya tribe of Cnetral India/Ashok K. Jain & H.O. Sharma. 88. Ethnobotanical resources of Chhatarpur District (Madhya Pradesh)/Bhaskar Datt. 89. Ethnobotany in human welfare of Raigad District in Maharashtra State, India/M.J. Kothari & S. Moorthy. 90. Ethnobotany of semecarpus anacardium (anacardiaceae)--marking nut in Andhra Pradesh, India/M. Madhukar Reddy. 91. Ethnobotany of Kurnool District, Andhra Pradesh/P. Saiprasad Goud & T. Pullaiah. 92. Studies in Indian ethnolichenology--an overview/D.K. Upreti. 93. Ethnobotany of indigenous non-wood forest products in xishuangbanna of Yunnan in Southwest China/Pei Shengji, Chen Sanyang, Wang Kanlin, Xu Jianchu & Xue Jiru. 94. Ethnobotany of St. Lucia, East Caribbean/Laurent L. Jean Pierre.

Section V: Methodologies: 95. Quantification of tree resources utilized for medicinal purpose by Mahadeo Koli of Western Maharashtra, India/D.K. Kulkarni, M.B. Kulkarni & M.S. Kumbhojkar. 96. MEDFLOR INDIA--An ethnobotanical database of Andhra Pradesh/D. Raghu Ramulu & Dhaval M. Shah. 97. Tribal leather technology with special reference to reptile skin in Eastern India/D.C. Pal. 98. Role of indexing and abstracting services in dissemination of ethnobotanical information/Roma Mitra. Section VI: Socio-economic Aspects: 99. Preliminary study on marine resources used in Togian Islands, sulawesi (Indonesia) : with special reference to bajau people/C. Hutabarat, A. H. Pramono & S. Yuliati. 100. Ocean produce in Indian socio-economy/Mahendra N. Srivastava. 101. Damar resins, from extraction to cultivation : an "Agroforest Strategy" for forest resource appropriation in Indonesia/Genevieve Michon, Hurbert de Foresta & Arif Aliadi. 102. Ethnobotany and community development in the Atlantic Rainforest (Brazil)/G.C.C. Born, O.A. Favero & S. Pavan. 103. Ethnobotanic studies in Northeast India: certain new essential oil crops of promising industrial value/S.C. Nath. 104. Mahua & Chura to boost tribal economy/S.K. Nigam & Gopal Misra. 105. Grewia optiva drumm 'Bhimal' : A boon for rural people in Kumaun Hills, India/Sneh Lata. Section VII: General Studies: 106. On the probable loss of plant names in the Guaja language (Eastern Amazonian Brazil)/William Balee. 107. Ethnic plant classification and nomenclature of the Tai Khamtis of Northeastern India/P. Gogoi & S.K. Borthakur. 108. Taxa, phena and the notion of species: a case study in montagnais zoological classification/D. Clement. 109. Biological observation help mundas in weather forecast/Peter Paul Hembrom. 110. Intellectual property rights for informal innovators: biodiversity conservators/K.L. Mehra. 111. Perception and diagnosis of illness among Bhoksas in India/Deepshika Baranwal. Author index. Keyword Index. 

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