Medicinal Plants

Medicinal Plants
ISBN-10
8120414144
ISBN-13
9788120414143
Series
Medicinal Plants
Pages
491
Language
English
Published
2000
Publisher
Oxford & IBH Publishing Company
Author
Shankar Gopal Joshi

Description

&Medicinal Plant is not just a repetitive reproduction of available Botanical information on 420 medicinal plants commonly used in Ayurveda but more than that. It provides valuable dates to the Botanist and to the medical clan. Besides classifying these plant into 106 families, he places them in terms of Ayurveda qualities, like Rasa, Guma, Virya and Upaka, and their inter-relationship. The chemical components and their therapeutic effects from the root to fruit are detailed. Identification of plants is vital to the medical system. House, diagnostic external morphological characteristics of medicinal plants are provided through sketches.

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