Sustainable Use of Medicinal Plants
Contents: Preface. Introduction. I. Taxonomical classification of medicinal plants: 1. Medicinal plants and patented polyherbal formulations for management of inflammatory and free radical mediated chronic diseases/Yamini Bhusan Tripathi. 2. Pattern of active ingredient contents on Ashwagandha (withania somnifera Dunal) roots as influenced by phenological stages and storage time/Anubha Upadhyay, Preeti Sagar Nayak, Noor Afshan Khan and S.K. Dwivedi. II. Traditional knowledge and sustainable use of biodiversity: 3. Indigenous methods of agriculture in Guatemala: loss, resilience and revitalization/Benjamin Levy. 4. Socio-economic development and traditional medicinal knowledge protection: Dediapada, South Gujarat, India/Lancelot D\'Cruz. 5. Ethno-veterinary practices and sustainable use of medicinal plants among forest dwelling communities of Chhattisgarh: an appraisal/R.N. Pati. 6. Medicinal plants conservation strategies: Uttarakhand perspective/M.S. Gusain, C.S. Rana and Munesh Kumar. 7. Health and traditional knowledge: an ethno-medicinal investigation in Saora tribal community of Chhattisgarh/Dinesh Mishra Arti Brokar. III. Intellectual property rights and biopiracy: 8. Safeguarding the medicinal plants against biopiracy/Vinita Krishna. 9. Impact of biopiracy on economics of traditional medical systems in India/Rajat Kanti Chaudhuri and Ila Chaudhuri. IV. Mainstreaming medicinal plants in primary health care: 10. Herbal home remedies and role of traditional healers as health care providers/Nitu Goswami, R.B. Singh and C.P,. Kala. 11. Medicinal importance of some important Kharif weeds/Siddharth Nayak, Preeti Sagar Nayak, S.D. Upadhyaya and S.K. Jain. V. Value addition and processing: 12. Effect of varying packaging material on storability of Isabgol (Plantago Ovata.F) genotypes ambient conditions/Sandip M. Kadlag, Satrupa Rao and A.B. Tiwari. 13. Extraction and contribution of non-timer forest products in the livelihoods of Achanakmar-Amarkantak biosphere reserve/Subhash Chandra Tiwari and Shabir Ahmad Bhat. VI. Screening of bioactive ingredients: 14. Callus induction studies on Stevia and antimicrobial screening of leaf extracts/Snehal Pande, Minal Wani and Madhukar Khetmalas. 15. Phytochemical analysis and antimicrobial activity of crude extract of Tridax procumbens L. leaves/Minal Wani and Snehal Pande. 16. An alternative approach for the production of medicinally important steroidal saponins from the lant asparagus racemosus (asparagaceae)/Mashitha Pise, Jaishree Rudra, Sunita Bundale, Deovrat Begde, Nandita Nashikkar and Avinash Upadhyay. 17. Lycorpodium Clavatum L. is an excellent plant source for free Myo-Inositol: a bench-friendly method for its isolation, biosynthetic analysis in unadulterated form and its plausible relevance in medicinal applications/Anusuya Basak, Timir Baran Jha and Jukta Adhikari. VII. Air borne mould diversity and ecology: 18. Airborne mould diversity of certain indoor and outdoor environment/Kavita Sharma. VIII. Conservation of medicinal plants: 19. Conservation of medicinal plants in India: a review on biotechnological approach/G.K. Sahu and B.B. Sahoo. 20. Conservation of medicinal herbs in their natural habitat (In-Situ) and protected areas (Ex-Situ) with special reference to Southern Rajasthan/Seema Bhardwaj, Lalit Choudhary and Dinesh Chandra Bhatt. 21. Sustainable harvest of medicinal plants in tropical forests of Chhattisgarh, India/A.K. Pandey, A.K. Mandal and Swati Yadav.
The Third World Countries of the world not only accommodate most of the world\'s biodiversity but also wide varieties of medicinal plants species. The medicinal plants contain predominant ingredients of medicines that are administered in most of the traditional healing practices in Asia, Africa and Australia. The pharmaceutical companies draw insights from traditional practices and knowledge to develop new drugs from the herbs. The globalization and liberalization of the market have hiked the scale of trade of medicinal plants from local to global. The growing market demand on herbal products and unregulated trade have lead to over exploitation of habitat and threat to conservation approach in different regions of the world. The policy makers and scientists have recognized that adding value to medicinal plants through the development of pharmaceuticals products is a major dimension of sustainable use of medicinal plants. Conservation of medicinal plants sector is a priority area for Government of India. Different schemes have been implemented to promote herbaria, medicinal plants conservation area, promoting electronic databases, documentation and capacity building, molecular analysis, active compounds, pharmaceutical validations, domestication, adding value and marketing sector. Different pharmaceutical companies and scientists in the universities have been actively involved on the research of active ingredients as lead compounds for drug development. These dimensions of sustainable use of medicinal plants have been critically analysed in this volume. (jacket)
The Third World Countries of the world not only accommodate most of the world\'s biodiversity but also wide varieties of medicinal plants species. The medicinal plants contain predominant ingredients of medicines that are administered in most of the traditional healing practices in Asia, Africa and Australia. The pharmaceutical companies draw insights from traditional practices and knowledge to develop new drugs from the herbs. The globalization and liberalization of the market have hiked the scale of trade of medicinal plants from local to global. The growing market demand on herbal products and unregulated trade have lead to over exploitation of habitat and threat to conservation approach in different regions of the world. The policy makers and scientists have recognized that adding value to medicinal plants through the development of pharmaceuticals products is a major dimension of sustainable use of medicinal plants. Conservation of medicinal plants sector is a priority area for Government of India. Different schemes have been implemented to promote herbaria, medicinal plants conservation area, promoting electronic databases, documentation and capacity building, molecular analysis, active compounds, pharmaceutical validations, domestication, adding value and marketing sector. Different pharmaceutical companies and scientists in the universities have been actively involved on the research of active ingredients as lead compounds for drug development. These dimensions of sustainable use of medicinal plants have been critically analysed in this volume. (jacket)
