Ethnomedicine and Human Welfare, Vol. III

Contents: Preface. 1. Herbal remedies for diabetes/T.V.V. Seetharami Reddi, B.V.A. Rama Rao Naidu and S. Prasanthi. 2. Enthnomedicinally important plants used in the treatment of skin afflictions by the tribals of Chhattisgarh of Madhya Pradesh/Amia Tirkey, S.S. Khan and Fatima Khan. 3. Ethnomedicinal remedies against diabetes in India: a systematic census/D.A. Patil, M.V. Patil and Shubhangi Pawar. 4. Medicinally important plants growing in and Aroud Adilabad district of Andhra Pradesh used in the treatment of different ailments/Rizwana Mubeen, Sadia Fatima, Atiya Khanum, Irfan Ali Khan and S.Y. Anwar. 5. Plants: a potential resource for therapeutics/C. Aiyavu, S. John Britto and S. Senthilkumar. 6. Cultivation, conservation and export potentialities of medicinal plants/Shaik Imam, S.J. Hussain and Mushtaq Ahmad. 7. Ethnomedicine a template of modern drug development/Shyam S. Mandal, S. Faizi Ali Akhtar and Arti Sinha. 8. Ethnomedicine of weeds/Shyam S. Mandal, K.R. Maurya and N.K. Sinha. 9. Aromatic plants used in Indian cuisine and their effects on health/Sharique Zafar, Zeba S. Zafar, Sakina S. Zafar, Shadab Zafar and Asif Iqbal.

"Primitive people of all ages derived knowledge of medicinal plants from the very beginning through trial and error. From time immemorial, diseases have been a part of human life and they sometimes have threatened the existence of human race on the face of the earth. It is realised that the traditional knowledge base system is gradually sparkling as a source of knowledge base for scientific endeavour to study and to make sustainable use of biodiversity which has an immense importance for biological science at present. This entailed the use of herbal medicine as healthcare and as medicinal treatment of various diseases. It is well known fact that rural areas, particularly the areas inhabited by the tribal people and socio-economically backward communities are the major sources of traditional knowledge about the uses of various plants. A large number of plant species are used in ethnomedicine for the treatment of different diseases."