Ethnomedicinal Plants: Phytochemistry and Pharmacological Profiles: Vol. I
Contents: 1. Ethnomedicinal plants-a global scenario/H.P. Sharma. 2. Alternanthera: Phytochemical and pharamacological characteristics/A.U. Hivrale. 3. Annona squamosa: a reservoir of medicinal properties and potential alternative to synthetic drugs/Patnaik Amit and H.P. Sharma. 4. Butea monosperma-flame of the forest/Jaya Singh and Saurabh Gupta. 5. Carissa carandas-a multipurpose ethnomedicinal plant/Sarad Kumar Mishra, Surya Kant Tripathi, Swati Shukla and Sarriya Abdullah. 6. Cassia fistula-the semi-wild Indian Laburnum/Laxmipriya Padhi and Sujogya Kumar Panda. 7. Significance of chickpea-a nutraceutical appraisal/Mohammad Mazid, Taqi Ahmed Khan and Rajib Roychowdhury. 8. A review on commiphora caudate-an Aromatic medicinal plant/M. Chandrasekhara Reddy, A. Sudhakar and K. Sri Rama Murthy. 9. Costus pictus-a potential anti-diabetic plant/A. Sabita Rani and G. Sulakshana. 10. Cuscuta-a parasitic angiosperm with medicinal properties/Xiaogang Wang, Raphael Dubois, Caitlyn Young, James D. Adams. 11. Cyclea peltata-secondary metabolites and pharmacological potentials/Bhagya N. and Chandrashekar K.R. 12. Digitalis purpurea-an important source of cardiac glycosides/Dorcas M. and A. Sabitha Rani. 13. Eclipta alba-a medicinal weed/Nabanita Chakraborty. 14. Ficus racemosa-an medicinal tree/Sangeeta Mukhi and Anindya Bose. 15. Therapeutic potentials of fusarium-an endophytic fungus/Kh. Nongalleima and Lokesh Deb. 16. Hemidesmus indicus-a potential medicinal plant/Reena Bhattacharjee and H.P. Sharma. 17. Litsea polyantha-a folk medicinal plant/Manik Ghosh, Barij Nayan Sinha and Julio A. Seijas. 18. Phyllanthus urinaria-an ethnomedicinal herb/Smrita Singh and Aparajita Mohanty. 19. Piper longum-a source of therapeutic agents/S.K. Shiva Rani and Neeti Saxena. 20. Rauwolfia serpentine-an antihypertensive plant/Saket Shrotri and Prabhat Singh. 21. Salvadora persica and salvadora oleoides-multipurpose drug plants/Ravinder Kumar and Anita R. Sehrawat. 22. Saraca asoca-an Indian medicinal plant/Vandana Bharti, Archana Mehta, Laxmi Ahirwal and Neha Jain. 23. Semecarpus anacardium L: a toxic marking nut for the healing of various ailments/Paras Jain, H.P. Sharma and Nisha Singh. 24. Tinospora cordifolia: a miraculous medicinal climber/Anita Sinha and H.P. Sharma. 25. Vitex negundo-a potential ethnomedicinal plant/Fauziya Basri and H.P. Sharma. 26. Withania somnifera-a boon for mankind/Sweta Kumari, Girish Pathade. 27. Endemic ethnobotanicals of Seshachalam hills, eastern Ghats/M. Mahendra Nath and K. Madhava Chetty. 28. Natural product in protection of plants-a recent trend/Sunil Kumar Jha, Sangeetha Samad, P.K. Pandey and H.P. Sharma. 29. Sustainable socio economic development through cultivation of medicinal and aromatic plants/Jai Kumar. 30. Biodiversity and conservation of medicinal plants/Swaroopa Maralla.
From the preface: Traditional medicine include all kinds of folk medicine, unconventional medicine and indeed any kind of therapeutic method that had been handed down by the tradition of a community or ethnic group. It is customary to find all kinds of practices grouped under the common heading ‘traditional medicines’ mainly because they do not emanate from the biomedical paradigm.
Plants are the rich source of secondary metabolites with interesting biological activities. In general these secondary metabolites are important sources with varieties of structural arrangement and properties. A knowledge of the ethno-medicinal information and chemical constituents of plant is desirable not only for discovery of therapeutic agents but also because such information are of great value in disclosing a new source for cost effective phyto-chemicals for the synthesis of chemical substances and for discovering the actual significance of ethno-medicinal remedies.
