Handbook on Herbal Medicine

The usage of herbs tremendously increasing in the modern days throughout the world. Herbal medicine has become modern method of treatment of different kinds of diseases. However, proper scientific evaluation is needed for each and every herb/drug of herbal origin according to World Health Organisation. This book presents an overview of usage of selected Indian Medicinal Plants with special reference to their Pharmacognostical properties. An extremely brief account of Pharmacognostical properties of selected Indian medicinal plants had described in first edition of the Handbook on Herbal Medicine, with special reference to Pharmacognostical properties of selected Indian Medicinal plants. It provides detailed information particularly about the Medicinal uses of selected plants.