Medicinal Plants of India, a pictorial guide, Volume I

India is known as “Land of Medicinal Plants”. It has a rich history of traditional 
healing system using more than 8000 medicinal plants. They are the source of 
different pharmaceuticals till date. In last decades, due to urbanization, 
deforestation, migration of tribal and rural people towards urban areas, breaks
down the chain of traditional healers in knowledge sharing from generation-to-generation, easy availability of allopathic medicines and climatic changes, we are 
losing the diversity of medicinal plants. Over-extraction, grazing, and forest fires 
are also a cause in the declination of medicinal plants diversity and uses. In this 
scenario, documentation of medicinal plants is an important task. The book 
entitled “Medicinal Plants of India, Volume – I, a pictorial guide” documented 
40 medicinal plants of India along with photographs for easy identification in the 
field. The book will be helpful to the students, researchers, academician, policy 
makers and local intellectuals.