Recent Progress in Medicinal Plants Volume 7 Ethnomedicine and Pharmacognosy II V. K. SINGH National Medicinal Plants Board Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (Govt. of India) Chandralok Building, 36, Janpath, New Delhi J. N. GOVIL Division of Genetics Indian Agricultural Research Institute New Delhi SHAMIMA HASHMI Regional Research Institute of Unani Medicine Post Box 70, Aiigarh (UP.) GURDIP SINGH Department of Chemistry Gorakhpur University Gorakhpur (U.P.) 2003 STUDIUM PRESS LLC, U.S.A.
ISBN: 1-930813-12-0 Contents About the Series Hi Foreword to the Series v Foreword to the Volume uii Preface ix Table of Contents of Volume 7 xi Table of Contents of Other Volumes ~ Vol. 1 to 6 and Vol. 8 xv Additional Volumes Under Preparation xxviii Some Common Folk Medicinal Plants xxix 1. Ethnomedicinal Uses oineem and Future Prospects 1 RAMESH C. SAXENA 2. Folk Medicinal Plants From Moradabad District 15 (Uttar Pradesh), India Z.A. ALI, ATHAR A. KHAN AND V.K. SINGH 3. Medicinal Plants of Himachal Pradesh with 25 Special Reference to Tribal Areas: Some Ethnobotanical Issues VlRENDER K. SANTVAN AND HARI OM AGRAWAL 4. Status of Medicinal Plant Diversity of 45 Kymore Plateau and Satpura Hill Region of Madhya Pradesh and Their Utilization GYANENDRA TIWARI, D.K. SHKIVASTAVA AND S.K. GANGRADE 5. Aromatic and Medicinal Grasses of 57 Aravalli Hills of Rajasthan, India S.S. KATEWA AND ANITA JAIN 6. History, Importance, Present Status and Future 69 Prospects of Medicinal Crops A.A. FAROOQI AND S. NIRANJAN KUMAR 7. Ethnomedicinal Plants of Sub-Himalayan Region of 83 North-Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India AJAI KUMAR SINGH 8. Ethnobotanical Documentation of Germplasm of 95 Medicinal Values and Their Conservation V. NATH, P.K. SHUKLA AND RAJIV RAI
XII 9. Diabetes: A Growing Modern Problem 105 and its Botanical Management R.G. KAPOORIA 10. Documentation of New Plant Species of Medicinal and 117 Food Values in Madhya Pradesh, India P.K. SHUKLA, RAJIV RAI AND V NATH 11. Less Known Medicinal Plants of Salem District of 121 Tamil Nadu, India A.A. ANSARI 12. Ethnomedicines of North India A Review 127 V.K. SINGH AND M.A. RASHID 13. Medicinal Plants of Western Himalaya: Traditional 137 Knowledge, Economy and Conservation GOPAL S. SINGH 14. Madhya Pradesh A Treasure Home of 155 Medicinal Plants in India J.L. SHRIVASTAVA AND RUBY SHARMA 15. Preferential Use of Medicinal Plants by Tribals oikhunti 167 Sub-Division (ChotaNagpur Division) of Bihar, India SALOMI TOPNO AND T.K. GHOSH 16. Adulteration and Substitution in 177 Herbal Drugs A Review SHANTA MEHROTRA, A.K.S. RAWAT, SAYYADA KHATOON AND P. PUSHPANGADAN 17. Ethnobotany of Bhuyans and Juangs of Orissa, India 193 UPPEANDRA DHAR, V.K. SINGH AND AMINUDDIN 18. Traditional Medicinal Plants of North-East India 205 P.B. KANJILAL, RUMI KOTOKY AND JUBITA SARMA 19. Medicinal Trees of Shahjahanpur District of 231 Uttar Pradesh (India): Chemical Composition, Medicinal Importance and Biological Activities MOHAMMAD ASLAM AND ANWAR MASOOD 20. Ethnobotany of Tribe Khond (Orissa), India 285 UPPEANDRA DHAR, V.K. SINGH, R.D. GIRACH AND AMINUDDIN 21. Ethnobotany An Appraisal 297 A.V.S.S. SAMBAMURTY 22. Ethnomedicinal Uses ocneem in Rural Areas of 319 Uttar Pradesh, India ABDUL VIQAR KHAN, GHAZALA PARVEEN, M. MASHKOOR ALAM AND V.K. SINGH
XII) 23. Folk Medicines of the Lower Benue Valley of Nigeria 327 J.O. IGOLI, T.A. TOR-ANYIIN, S.S. USMAN, H.O.A. OLUMA AND N,P. IGOLI 24. Importance of Pharmacognosy as an Aid to Drug 339 Standardisation Programme: A Review SHAMIMA HASHMI AND V.K. SINGH 25. An Ethnobotanical Tour Within Bhil Community of 347 Madhya Pradesh (India) SWATI SAMVATSAR AND V.B. DIWANJI 26. Medicinal Plants and Traditional Medicine in the Gulf 361 Guinea S. Tome and Principe Islands MARIA DO CEU MADUREIRA, ANA PAULA MARTINS, LIGIA R. SALGUEIRO, JORGE PAIVA AND PROENCA DA CUNHA 27. Ethnomedicinal Uses of Citrullus colocynthis (L) 383 Schrad. in Rural Areas of Aligarh District (Uttar Pradesh), India A. VIQAR KHAN, M. MASHKOOR ALAM AND V.K. SINGH 28. A Survey on the Traditional Medicine in Turkey: 389 Semi-quantitative Evaluation of the Results ERDEM YESILADA AND EKREM SEZIK 29. Ethnobotanical Resources Used for Antidiarrhoea, 413 Antidysentery and Stomach Disorders in Western Maharashtra, India D.K. KULKARNI, M.S. KUMBHOJKAR AND A.S, UPADHYE 30. Medicinal Plants in Health Care: Hepato-Biliary 435 Dysfunction SYED AZIZ AHMAD, S.C. SHARMA AND MOHD. ASLAM 31. Lodha Medicine of Midnapore District, 443 West Bengal, India D.C. PAL 32. Gloriosa- super ba L. -A Very Useful Medicinal Plant 465 G. SlVAKUMAR AND K.V. KRISHKAMURTHY 33. Leuzea carthamoides DC: ATonic Plant for 483 Cold Climate: Description, Chemistry and Cultivation - A Review B. GALAMBOSI, E. VARGA AND ZS. HAJDU 34. Folk Medicinal Practices of Andhra Pradesh, India 503 S. VEDAVATHY 35. Medicinal Uses of Some Flowering Plants Among the 511 Tribals of Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu, India S.M. RAJENDRAN
XIV 36. Ethnomedicinal Uses of Plants by the Manipuris 523 (Meiteis) of Manipur, India B. MANIHAR SHARMA, H. MANORANJAN SHARMA AND A. RADHAPYARI DEVI 37. Characteristics and Ethnobotanical Studies on Primitive 543 Tribes of Madhya Pradesh, India RAJIV RAI, V. NATH AND P.K. SHUKLA 38. Status Paper on Medicinal Plants of Mizoram, India 553 H. LALRAMNGHINGLOVA 39. Some Important Aquatic Medicinal Plants of Tarai Region 565 of North-West Uttar Pradesh, India MOHAMMAD ASLAM AND ANWAR MASOOD 40. Pharmacognostical Standardization of Some 571 Important Herbal Drugs of Indian Systems of Medicine SHAMIMA HASHMI AND V.K. SINGH Subject Index 585 Botanical Index 591