About the Book: Medicinal Plants: Ethnomedicine and Biotechnological Potential
Indian sub continents are a vast repository of medicinal plants that are used in
traditional medicinal treatment. These medicines have been developed through the
experience of many generation assimilation of the knowledge, in course of time,
from fragments of Siddha, Ayurvada, Yunani as well as tribal system of medicine.
Currently 80% of the world population depends on plant- derived medicine for the
first line of primary health care for human alleviation because it has no side
effects. This book gives an exhaustive detail on about 300 species of medicinal
plants belonging to 104 families of Similipal Biosphere Reserve,