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Medicinal
Plants of Kashmir and Ladakh
Temperate and Cold Arid Himalaya
M.K. Kaul |
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| ISBN |
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8173870616 |
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| Year
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1997
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| Pages |
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Pages
173; 69 colour pictures |
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| Size
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9.5"
X 7" / hardcover |
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| Price |
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Rs.
650 |
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| Availability |
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Yes |
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During
the past few years a series of books have appeared
on Indian Medicinal Plants. In these books we have
witnessed increased interest on tropical plants, but
very limited concern about medicinal plants of temperate
and cold arid regions. Although the current increase
in research activities to develop new drugs from plants
is based on exploitation of tropical rainforests of
South America, Africa and Asia, yet the medicinal
herbs of temperate and cold arid regions have lost
none of their importance and continue to be the best
sources of potential herbal drugs. Probably, inaccessibility
of regions with cold and rigorous climate is a bottleneck
for the systematic scientific study of vegetal drugs
of these areas.
The Himalayas is credited all over the world as a
trove of medicinal herbs offering refuge to these
plants in its varied mountain ecosystems. The present
book is the outcome of author’s field studies
and provides scientific information on 111 selected
medicinal plants occurring in Kashmir and Ladakh-important
regions of western Himalaya with diverse climate.
The information presented is comprehensive. Most of
the plants mentioned in the book are known herbal
drugs. A chapter on traditional knowledge on healing
properties of plants in Kashmir and Ladakh giving
ethnomedicinal uses of 291 plants is included. Sixty-nine
colour pictures illustrating 57 common and reputed
medicinal herbs (all taken by the author) are included
in the book.
It is hoped that the book will be useful as a field
guide to botanists, cultivators and collectors of
medicinal plants and to all those interested to work
on Himalayan plants.
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I
Introduction
Area of Study and Important Sites of Medicinal Plants
Important Groups of Active Plant Constituents
Collection and/or Cultivation
Conservation-oriented Management Strategies
Traditional Botanical Drugs of Kashmir and their Therapeutic
Value
Traditional Knowledge on Healing Properties of Plants
in Kashmir and Ladakh.
Part II
Descriptive Profile
Select Bibliography
Index of Scientific Names
Index of Common (English) Names
Index of Vernacular Names.
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Dr.
M.K. Kaul (born Nov. 1, 1948), an Honours Botany
graduate from University of Kashmir, took his Ph.D.
degree in Botany from University of Bombay in 1975.
He has more than 25 years research experience in the
field of systematic Botany, Ethnobotany and Conservation
of Medicinal Plants. Most of this time he has been botanising
in north-west and trans-Himalaya having an extraordinary
diversity of altitudes and rigorous climatic conditions.
He has been instrumental in ‘ex situ’ conservation
of important medicinal plants like Heracleum candican
and Picrorhiza kurroa—Himalayan species exhibiting
poor response to changed habitats.
He is a member of various national and international
scientific societies. He has authored a book on weed
flora of Kashmir and edited books on medicinal and aromatic
plants. He has more than seventy research publications
to his credit.
Presently he is working as a Senior Scientist in Regional
Research Laboratory, Jammu-a constituent of Council
of Scientific and Industrial Research, and is engaged
in studies on biodiversity and sustainable use of endangered
medicinal plant resources of western Himalaya.
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