Medicinal Knowledge and Plants of the Chittagong Hill-Tracts Bangladesh : A Phytochemical Oriented Ethnic Medicinal Documentation
Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Introduction and the geographical aspects of the Chittagong Hill tracts. 2. The tribal communities of the Chitagong Hill tracts and their diversities. 3. Explorations of ethnobotanical and ethnomedicinal features in the Chittagong Hill tracts by the foreign travelers and the scientists of Bangladesh. 4. Medicinal knowledge and the tribal pharmacopoeias. 5. Diseases prevailing among the people of the Chittagong hill tracts and the ingredients used in preparing the tribal medicines for the treatment of different diseases. 6. Methodology of documentation of the medicinal knowledge of the Chittagong hill tracts. 7. List of 100 medicinal plants of CHT. 8. Subject Index. Appendices. Bibliography.
This book entitled Medicinal Knowledge and the plants of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh describes medicinal knowledge, the social and cultural diversities of the tribal communities of Chittagong Hill Tracts as well as the geographical features and medicinal plants of the region. It also dwells upon the medicinal knowledge for the treatment of different diseases of the ethnic people in the light of their tribal pharmacopoeias, and also about the ingredients collected from different sources used in preparing the tribal medicines for the alleviation of various diseases. The book also delineates upon the methodology of documentation of the medicinal knowledge of the Chittagong Hill Tracts. It includes colored photographs of 100 medicinal plants taken from the wild habitat of the Chittagong Hill Tracts with their tribal, Bangla and English names, as well as botanical features, ethno-medicinal uses, flowering and fruiting times, systematic position, ecology and distribution. The book also highlights important chemical compounds of these plants isolated and identified by the phytochemist of home and abroad.
The book will be also useful for the students and teachers in the fields of botany, chemistry, photochemistry, pharmacy, pharmacology and medicine as well as the people associated with the preparation and dispensing of the indigenous and traditional medicines for health care activities at home and abroad. It will also be very useful to a host of people and specialists who are involved in the discovery of newer physiologically active compounds from the plant sources for the treatment of different ailments and agonies of human being. (jacket)
