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M. Sheriff |
Catalogue of Indian Synonyms of Medicinal Plants in Organic Substance |
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Arun K. Sharma |
A Handbook of Organic Farming |
$175.49 $131.62 |
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| An encyclopaedic work on the issue of organic farming, this book covers most aspects of this vast subject. A useful companion for any organic farming enthusiast. Contents of the Book: Cycle for survival. Towards organic farming. Soils environment and plant growth. Soil organic matter and humus. In-situ manuring. Ex-situ manuring. Production of compost. Vermi-composting. Bio-intensive nutrient management. Mechanism of nitrogen fixation. Ecological pest management. Neem : the... |
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A.K. Dahama |
Organic Farming for Sustainable Agriculture |
$37.49 $28.12 |
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| A fairly competent book on the subject by a professor of agronomy from Bikaner. The perspective is that of an agricultural scientist. He therefore quotes Swaminathan but does not refer to Fukuoka or Howard or any other organic farming greats. Contents of the book: Introduction--organic farming : an overview. Sustainable agricultural system: the world scenario. Management of agricultural pollution : soil pollution. Management of agricultural pollution: agrochemicals. Use of traditional... |
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K. Vijayalakshmi et al |
Organic Methods of Pest & Disease Management |
$6.49 $4.87 |
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| The book is designed in a manner such that the pages when separated can also be used individually as posters.
There are a total of 9 posters which identify important pests of vegetables and their control measures, important diseases and their control and general non-chemical methods of pest control for a variety of crops. |
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Mohan Shankar Deshpande |
Organic Farming wrt Cosmic Energy |
$31.49 $23.62 |
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| Is any agricultural expert prepared to prove that: The Deshpande method is wrong and loss producing for a farmer. The trials carried out on a thousand farms by the cultivators under his guidance and the working of the processes of nature as explained by Shri Deshpande based on these experiments is erroneous? The advertisements which confuse the farmers must also be stopped The Indian Agriculture should be freed from the shackles of Scientific Blind Faith."No Fertilizer is required as food... |
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Subhashini Sridhar |
Organic Vegetable Gardening |
$9.49 $7.12 |
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| First published in 2002, this popular little booklet has been revised, enlarged and reprinted. Organic Vegetable Gardening focuses on how to grow vegetables in your garden without the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. It gives information on composting techniques and brief descriptions of pests and diseases that veggies are susceptible to and how to control them. |
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K. Vijayalakshmi et al |
Organic Paddy Cultivation |
$7.99 $5.99 |
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| This book provides detailed information on seed selection, seed treatment, pests and diseases affecting paddy and how to control them with organic measures. Important indigenous varieties with their special characteristics are also described in this book. |
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Manohar Parchure |
Organic Farming |
$25.49 $19.12 |
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| Parchure seeks to debunk the NPK theory of plant nutrition with homegrown wisdom. |
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Vandana Shiva |
Principles of Organic Farming |
$16.99 $12.74 |
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| About the Author:
Vandana Shiva is one of the World's most dynamic and provocative thinkers. A physicist, ecologist, activist and author of several books, she won the Right Livelihood Award in 1993. She directs the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Natural Resource Policy in New Delhi, India, and is an Associate Editor of The Ecologist magazine. Before becoming an activist, Shiva was one of India's leading physicists.
Vandana Shiva completed her Ph.D. in the Philosophy of... |
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F.T. Brooks |
Sannyasa or the One Salvation of Organic Work |
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Arun K. Sharma |
A Handbook of Medicinal Plants |
$169.00 $126.75 |
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| A Handbook of Medicinal Plants (A Complete Source Book), is the first book of its kind.
The book describes more than 1346 medicinal plants found in the world. The book includes vernacular names, description, distribution, part use, utilization, active principles, agronomic practices and colour plates (about 870 photographs). Separate chapters on organic farming, biofertilizers and biopesticides uses for sustainable cultivation of medicinal plants tips for medicinal plants cultivation and... |
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Sanket K. Joshi |
Seed Album of Some Medicinal Plants of India |
$44.99 $33.74 |
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| The books "Seed Album of Some Medicinal Plants of India" is a novel experiment-a deviation from the normal trend of focusing the leaves and flowers of a plant. The book not only depicts the morphological diversity and beauty of seeds but also assists in an instant identification of the plants through attractive photographs of seeds/fruits. The physiological aspects such as seed dormancy, germination, viability and propagation methods have also been given due consideration for... |
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Narayan Das Prajapati |
A Marketing Directory of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants |
$55.99 $41.99 |
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| A Marketing Directory of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants contains more than 25,000 addresses of key players viz. cultivators, planting material suppliers, traders, manufactures, exporters, extractors, organizations, universities, prominent personalities and consultants involved in medical and aromatic planting.
This title aims at facilitating the reader in attaining an overall view of the sector and is very useful in this regard.
About the Authors:
Mr. N.D. Prajapati is a person, who is... |
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K.R. Srikantha Murthy (tr.) |
Madhava Nidanam (Roga Viniscaya) of Madhavakara: A Treatise on Ayurveda |
$37.99 $28.49 |
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| This treatise, Roga Viniscaya , is more popularly known as Madhava Nidana after the name of its author. It is counted as the first among the Laghu Trayi (the lesser triad) of Ayurvedic literature. It is considered as the ideal book dealing with Nosology (knowledge of diseases) and has earned appraise for its author as Madhava is best for Nidana. It has retained its importance as a text-book on the subject since the last thirteen centuries. It enjoyed great reputation as an authoritative... |
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Narayan Das Prajapati |
Agro's Dictionary of Medicinal Plants |
$49.99 $37.49 |
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| The publication of Agro's Dictionary of Medicinal Plants marks the birth of treatise covering about 4000 plants at one place. The major objective of launching this publication is not to replace other authoritative dictionaries/glossaries but to highlight the economic uses of medicinal plants along with their vernacular names.
Medicinal plants have curative properties due to the presence of various complex chemical substances of different composition, which are found as secondary plant... |
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S.K.Ramachandra Rao |
Encyclopaedia of Indian Medicine (Six Volume Set) |
$123.49 $92.62 |
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| PLEASE NOTE: Volumes 1 and 2 are OUT OF PRINT so this is just 4 of the 6 volumes accordingly. Volumes:Vol. III: Clinical Examination and Diagnostic Methods This volume contains a detailed account of the several methods of diagnosis, the related conceptual framework and the rationale behind prescriptions. There is a special section on surgical instruments and operations. Vol. IV: Materia Medica (Herbal Drugs) This exhaustive volume deals with herbs and plants used in Indian... |
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Narayan Das Prajapati |
A Handbook of Medicinal Plants : A Complete Source Book |
$201.99 $151.49 |
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| A Handbook of Medicinal Plants (A Complete Source Book), is the first book of its kind. The book describes more than 1346 medicinal plants found in the world. The book includes vernacular names, description, distribution, part use, utilization, active principles, agronomic practices and colour plates (about 870 photographs). Separate chapters on organic farming, biofertilizers and biopesticides uses for sustainable cultivation of medicinal plants tips for medicinal plants cultivation and... |
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Rustomjee Naserwanjee Khory |
Materia Medica of India and their Therapeutics |
$93.99 $70.49 |
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| A Reprint of Khory's and Katra's famous book first published in 1903. The organic drugs from the vegetable kingdom described in this book and their therapeutic value are mainly intended for those who believe in Hindu system of medicine, the system which was in the heyday of its glory in the earlier centuries of the Christian era but afterwards declined in the country of its origin.
The first decline set in, when the Muhammedans conquered India, for the Muhammedans brought with them their own... |
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D.N. Dhar |
Natural Remedies |
$12.99 $9.74 |
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| Herbs have always contributed a great deal to promoting health. And they still do. Combining traditional wisdom with scientific principles, this book provides safe and effective herbal remedies for treating over 75 common and not-so-common health problems.
According to WHO estimates, the use of herbal remedies exceeds that of modern drugs by two or three times. Confronted with solid scientific evidence, the scientists are rediscovering the efficacy of nature’ simple remedies based on herbs... |
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Edward John Waring |
Pharmacopoeia of India : Prepared Under the Authority of Her Majestry's Secretary of State for India in Council |
$156.49 $117.37 |
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| Contents:
Preface
List of medical officers, and others in India, who have furnished reports
List of articles officinal in the pharmacopoeia of India, not contained in the British Pharmacopoeia
Vegetable materia medica
Products of fermentation and distillation
Animal materia medica
Inorganic materia medica
Articles and solutions employed in chemical testing
Classified catalogue of drugs derived from the organic: Kingdom: indicating those which are more or less analogous to... |
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H.S. Puri |
Simple Ayurvedic Remedies |
$12.99 $9.74 |
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| The last three decades have witnessed extensive experimental studies on Indian herbs and their therapeutic activity. Some of these are no more available or have become ‘endangered species’; but still some herbs and organic or inorganic compounds that have therapeutic efficacy are available and can be used with encouraging results.
The present work is an attempt to specify the therapeutic usage of herbs to suit the body systems and presents simple Ayurvedic remedies that can be effectively... |
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S.C. Sharma |
Ayurveda: The Ultimate Medicine |
$22.49 $16.87 |
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| Ayurveda is one of the most ancient medical systems where the concept of specialisation originated-be it in surgery, internal medicine or psychiatry; they all evolved in Ayurveda before anywhere else in the world. This system, also called the mother of medicine, focuses not only on eliminating the disease but on providing a holistic cure of the patient, propounding his total well-being. It considers the human body as a miniature cosmos and yearns to help strike a balance between the various... |
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Bhagwan Dash |
Herbal Cure: Asthma and Cough |
$4.95 $3.71 |
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| This book is a part of the series of books on herbal treatment for common ailments. Its aim is to induce people to live closer to nature.Medical science has made considerable progress in various fields. The era of specialization and the tendency to see man as a chemo-physical conglomeration of many separate parts is giving place to a new genre of biological thinking. This new school of thought is directed towards the concept of man as whole person with his physical, emotional and spiritual... |
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Ivo Coelho |
Brahman & Person: Essays by Richard De Smet |
$44.99 $33.74 |
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| Brahman and Person is a collection of essays by the late Richard De Smet (1916-1997) on the topic of person in Indian thought. Overturning the current interpretation, De Smet proposes that the nirguna Brahman can be regarded as properly personal, provided person is understood in the original and classical sense that emerged in the Christian effort to speak about the mysteries of the Trinity and the Incarnation. The rendering of saguna and nirguna Brahman as personal and impersonal,... |
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Paramahansa Yogananda |
The Science of Religion |
$37.99 $28.49 |
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| "Science without religion is lame," Einstein once declared, "and religion without science is blind." Here is a short yet masterful summary of the principles and practices by which it is possible to attain direct, personal experience of higher Reality. The value of this small book is beyond estimation in words, since between these narrow covers is to be found the flower of the Vedas and the Upanishads, the essence of Patanjali, foremost exponent of the Yoga philosophy... |
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