Endangered Medicinal Plants

AUTHOR: A. B. Chaudhuri ISBN: 9788170354413 YEAR: 2007 (First Edition) PAGES: 223 BINDING: Hard LANGUAGE: English ABOUT THE BOOK This is an endeavour of the author to present a vast quantity of fact-based reliable analytical data on the Status (density and frequency etc.) of medicinal plants of India in his book. His inferences have the basis of field-based study on Status of plants the findings of which nullifies much bloated assertions of the experts on pharmacopoeia and of the pharmacologists that India was still a rich store house of medicinal plant resources; Their findings were never based on analytical (quantitative) data, besides that the systematic botanists have only prepared check lists of plants with morphological descriptions but never mentioned about regeneration and on their status (density, frequency, abundance etc.). So the floras do not speak of status -abundance or decay of various species. The exception was with the foresters who prepared status lists commercial tre