ISBN: 9788170355779    Publisher: Daya Publishing House Year of publishing: 2009     Format:  Hardcover No of Pages: 100        Language: English

Plant are value added for the content and chemical composition of their active components. The demand on Plant-based therapeutics has increased many fold in both developing and developed countries due to the growing recognition that they are natural products. Being non-narcotic, having to side-effects, easily available at affordable prices. There is a growing demand for plant-based medicines, bio-ceramic dresses, health products, pharmaceuticals, food supplements, cosmetics etc. international market of green medicine is over US$ 60 billion per year, which is growing at the rate of 7 %.
Medicinal plants research has undergone a phenomenal growth during last two decades. Worldwide trend towards the utilization of natural plant remedies has created an enormous need for high tech low cost solution and information about the properties and uses of the medicinal plants. Based on the rationale, present book comprising and produces the Ethnomedicine from over 20 original papers in India and abroad, on a wide range of topics in the areas of Ethnomedicine and Pisciculture.
It is hope the book will open new knowledge and further lead to research in new drugs of natural origin and serve as good source for further work to sustainable rural development through reintroduction of native plants and biodiversity conservation.
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Dr. A. K. Ghosh has been working on senescence and source-sink relationship of different types of plants since 1985. Besides he has been working on pollution and ethnomedicine since 1993. With more than 19 years of teaching experiences in H.S. section, he is at present serving as Headmaster in Saraswati Vidyamandir. Dr. Ghosh has already published 35 original scientific papers in International Journals of India and abroad. He is the author of 5 books, good sportsman and a social worker.
He acted as referee in Iraq and Pakistan Journal (PJSIR). Dr. Ghosh has been adjudged the best individual for his notable contribution in the field of Science Popularisation and Performance in disseminating science from the libraries and laboratories to the common people of West Bengal and abroad. He was awarded Gopal Chandra Bhattacharya Smriti Puraskar for the Year 2004 by Department of Science and Technology, Government of West Bengal.
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