Medicinal Plants : Conservation, Cultivation and Utilization

Contents: Preface. List of contributors. Introduction. 1. Traditional health care in a remote area of District Chamoli (Garhwal), Uttaranchal: What could do with?/Hemlata, Chandra P. Kuniyal and Y.P.S. Pangtey. 2. Medicinal plants of India: Need for their preservation/Maya Ram Uniyal. 3. Angiospermous seeds of medicinal importance in Gujarat State/Premendra Singh, S. Sisodia and Jinesh Shah. 4. Management of viral diseases of Ashwagandha/L.P. Awasthi, R.V. Singh, Pardeep Kumar and Shyam Singh. 5. Ayurvedic Garden: A novel concept in society for education and popularization of medicinally important plants/Niraj N. Upadhyaya, Mitesh B. Panchal and Vishal K. Muliya. 6. Isolation of Larvicidal ingredient from the leaves of catharanthus roseus for mosquito control/M.F. Alam, A.K. Chopra and V.K. Dua. 7. Phenological study of naturalised medicinal herbs of Agra/Manjari Kumari and A.K. Singh. 8. An ethnomedicinal plants in Melghat of Amravati District: a need for conservation/U.S. Patil. 9. Variability measurements in three wild collections of Solanum Nigrum L. Complex/Manisha Dhasmana and R.K.S. Rathore. 10. Antibacterial activity of mixtures of essential oils/R.C. Dubey and Anika Rana. 11. Herbs, health and environment/Vinod Upadhyay. 12. Ecological studies on medicinal plants of Neeru watershed, (J and K)/Harish Chander Dutt. 13. Assessment of influence of SO2 pollution on biochemical and antioxidant defense system of medicinal plant (Azadiracta indica): A case study/D.R. Khanna and Neetu Saxena. 14. Distribution patterns of coccinellids and their role in biological control of Mustard Aphids/Pushpa Singh and Sachin Srivastava. 15.  Pharmaceutical products and anti-microbial activity of bryophytes: uses of "Green Brain"/Kajal Srivastava and Shivom Singh. 16. Effect of Alcoholic extract of three Adiantum species of ferns formulation for Stamina in male and female Albino mice subjected to forced Swim stress/D.K. Bhatia and R.K. Pande. 17. Phytochemical, antifungal and antibacterial studies of Premna cordifolia (Stem)/J.S. Jangwan, N.K. Agarwal and J.S. Kathait. 18. Phytochemical examination of Pittosporum nepaulense and its effect on microorganism as an antibacterial agent/J.S. Kathait, Veena Joshi, N.K. Agarwal and J.S. Jangwan. 19. Isolation of active chemical constituents and study of active anticancer Alkaloid from the root extract of Pongamia pinnata (Vent)/Pawan Kumar Sagar. 20. Antibacterial activity of medicinal plants against dental infections/Prabhat and Navneet. 21. Conservation of some useful medicinal plants of Haridwar District in Uttaranchal State/Anil Kumar Dhiman. 22. Medicinal plant diversity in Pindari Glacier area of Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve (NDBR), Uttaranchal/Laxmi Rawat, H.B. Vashistha, Deepak Kholiya and S.K.Kamboj. 23. Effect of three different boiling times for extraction of aqueous extract of Peepal leaf on growth of Myrothecium roridum Tode ex Fr./Vishal K. Muliya and Arun Arya. 24. Rare medicinal plants as used in the folklore of Garwal Himalaya/P.P. Badoni. A.K. Dobriyal, P.K. Bahuguna, H.K. Joshi and (Late) G.S. Negi. 25. Antifeedant activity of Neem (Azadiracta indica A. Juss) on spilosoma obliqua walker/Dinesh Kumar Bhardwaj, M.P. Tyagi and Ashish Panwar. 26. Modern Dosage forms in Ayurveda: A study from Aryabhishak/Vishal K. Muliya. 27. Development of a database for identification of powdered crude drugs/S.P. Bhatnagar and V. Kaushik. 28. Ethnomedicinal flora of West Nimar (Khargone) District, M.P. India/S.K. Pathak and Sunita Pathak. 29. Makoi (Solaum nigrum) and Punarnava (Boerhavia diffusa): effective herbal drug in liver and kidney disorders/D.R. Khanna, Pradeep Sharma and Pramod Kumar. 30. Isolation of new isoflavonoids from Bowdichia virgiliodes/C.P. Singh, Ashuthosh Sharma, C. Shekhar and Alok Gupta. 31. Ayurvedic quick remedies/Arun Chugh. 32. Approach to cure Tamak Shwas (Asthma) by Panchkarma/Arun Chugh. 33. Status of medicinal plants found in a Montane forest of Garhwal Himalaya/Asha Dobhal, Pramod Kumar, G.S. Rajwar and Manisha Dobhal. 34. Biodiversity of cultivated fruits plants in Jaunpur development block of District Tehri Garhwal, Uttaranchal/Pramod Kumar, Suman Bisht and Asha Dobhal. 35. Physico-chemical screening of Abutilon indicum roots/Shri Krishna, Amit Kumar and Navneet. 36. Comparative growth pattern in nine cultures of Ash Gourd/Miti Rani and R.K.S. Rathore. 37. Medicinal plants of Rigveda/Deepika Chauhan, Navneet and Prabhat. 38. Utilization and conservation of medicinal plants/Sudha Dubey and Jyotsana Bhoraskar. 39. Antimicrobial properties of herbal tooth powders/Sanjay, Navneet, Murali Manohar and Prabhat. 40. Conservation practices and utilization strategies of medicinal plants in Bhandara District of Vidarbha region/Deepak D. Ramteke, Nitin Dongarwar, S.B. Zade and C.J. Khune. 41. Industrial utilization and promotion of medicinal plants in India/Shikha Singhal and Amit Agarwal. 42. Biodeterioration of Aonla (Emblica officinalis) and their products/Anjma Bhanti, Manisha, Divya Goyal and Seema Bhadauria. 43. Studies on in vitro antimicrobial activity of essential oil of the nardostachys jatamansi and Zanthoxyllum armatum/Anupama Gautam, Shailu Dalal and G.R.S. Bisht. 44. Clinical evaluation of the effect of centella asiatica on cerebral higher functions/Uttam Kumar Sharma, Ajay Kumar Sharma and C.M. Sharma. 45. Green tea and benefits/Shailu Dalal and Anupama Gautam. 46. Medicinal plant conservation/Rekha Sharma. 47. Antibacterial activity of polar fraction of Callistemon lanceolatus and Callistemon viminalis/Harish Chandra, Arun Pratap Singh, Jatin Kumar Srivastava, Gyanendra Awasthi and Ajay Singh. 48. Optimization of procedure for dyeing of cotton and wool fibres with bark of Juglans regia as Natural Dyes/S.C. Sati, J.S. Jagwan and Manisha Dobhal. 49. Optimization of procedure for dyeing of wool, cotton and silk fibres/S.C. Sati, Manisha Dobhal and J.S. jagwan. 50. Medicinal plant: Utilization and conservation/Sudha Dubey. 51. Demographic dispersion of weed flora of rice, maize and wheat in Doon Valley of Uttaranchal/Arun Gupta, S.P. Joshi, Pramod Uniyal and Asha Dobhal. 52. A survey of wound healing plants used by the tribal people of Khargone District of Madhya Pradesh/S.K. Mahajan, Virendra Mandloi and Amit Raghuwanshi. 53. Angiospermic diversity, conservation and documentation of some interesting and rare angiospermis of West Nimar District of M.P./S.K. Mahajan, C.L. Dulkar, M.M. Keshare and Chetna Sawale. 54. Healthy heart by Ayurvedic herbs/V.K. Pandey and Reena Pandey. 55. An approach to cure paralysis and Arthiritis using Sida cordifolia by Panchakarma /Harish Chauhan, D.R. Khanna and R. Bhutiani. Recommendations. Index.

"Local health traditions cannot be revitalized without ensuring the health of their medicinal plants resource base. For a long term and sustainable utilization programme for medicinal plants, it is imperative that medicinal plants are not only domesticated and put under cultivation, but also conserved in the wild. This book is first of its kind thereby adding a new dimension to the cultivation, conservation and utilization of medicinal plants.

According to current estimates about three fourth of the herbal drugs produced in India are used for curing human ailments. Based on different researches, strategies on conservation, cultivation and utilization of medicinal plants, the book profiles over 100's of such type of plants, which have been reported by different scientists, researchers, academicians and scholars of the country.

The book highlights the current status of important medicinal plants of India and also has some interesting and vital tips. The book will be useful for research institutes, agencies, NGOs, scientists, academicians, importers and exporters, growers, suppliers, medicinal garden owners and all those working in the allied fields."