Medicinal Plants and Glossary of Selected Terms

by B.S. Desai and F.M. Parabia and Y.T. Jasrai and M.H. Parabia

This book covers medical properties of over 200 selected and important medicinal plants that are vital in day-to-day medicaments.  It also deals with the section on some of the user-known medicinal plants.  A note is given for routine herbal preparations. 

The glossary of pharmacological and ayurvedic terms have been prepared to facilitate the readers about precise the readers about precise meanings and concepts.  The book also deals with all the basics of ayurveda like measurements, types of quaths, ointments, liniments, decoctions, ingredients of some well-known ayurvedic formulations available in the market. 

The ideal map as per schedule T-FDCA for pharmaceutical industries is also prepared.  The appendices covers major R & D sectors involved in phytopharmaceutical research, Major suppliers of extracts and phytochemicals in India.  Coloured photographs are also added to facilitate identification of some common plants.  Last and not the least a detailed bibliography of a total of around 100 references pertaining to books, scientific reports, compendium dictionaries manuals etc. have been prepared to facilitate book lovers who are in sort of really genuine books on medicinal and herbal. 

In all this book will prove to be very useful for the students and all persons related to the subject.

About the Authors:

Minoo H. Parabia, Fellow of Indian Association of Angiosperm Tax-onomy, Indian Ecological Society, Ethnobotanical Society of India, has been teaching as a Professor at the Department of Biosciences, South Gujarat University, Surat.  He has a vast teaching and research experience extending over three decades.  He has established a strong school of medicinal plant research.

Farzin M. Parabia, a young and dynamic researcher has specialization in Phytochemistry and Pharmacognosy with First Class academic credentials.  Presently, working as a Research Associate in a DST sponsored project on Standardization of Herbal Antimalarial Drug.

Yogesh T. Jasrai, a fellow of Indian Botanical Society, has been teaching various aspects of plant science for over seventeen years in the Department of Botany, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. He was also conferred a prestigious Professor Hiralal Chakravarty Award in Botany (2001). He has to his credit more than 50 research papers in reputed journals and 3 books. Since 1999, Dr. Jasrai has been working as a Professor of Botany. He is also a Co-ordinator of B.Sc. Environmental Science Programme.

Minoo H. Parabia, Fellow of Indian Association of Angiosperm Tax-onomy, Indian Ecological Society, Ethnobotanical Society of India, has been teaching as a Professor at the Department of Bio-sciences, South Gujarat University, Surat.  He has a vast teaching and research experience extending over three decades.  He has established a strong school of medicinal plant research.