Author Description

The book mainly dealswith medicinal plantsbeing used by aboriginal and rural communitiesin India for the treatment of various ailmentsthrough their traditional and endemicprescriptions. About 48 articles on the subjecthave been contributed by the expertethnobotanists from different parts of thecountry. Information about ethnobotanical uses,especially ethnomedicinal uses, is claimed to beoriginal by the authors which is obtained bythem from tribal people or others who haveaccrued deep knowledge about medicinal plantsthrough their long association with forestenvironment in onewayor the other.