Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of India

India has rich diversity of medicinal and poisonous plants. About 90 percentage of herbal crude drugs useful in the manufacture of Siddha Ayurveda Unani Homeopathy Naturopathy Amchi and Modern sys­tems of medicine are widely from the wild source. This wild source is rapidly shrinking day-by-day. Therefore there is a necessity for conser­vation and sustainable use of medicinal plants. Cultivation is clearly a sustainable possibility to the present collection of medicinal and poi­sonous plants from the wild. Medicinal plants yield numerous signifi­cance to the health of individual and communities. India is the largest producer of medicinal herbs and is appropriately called the botanical garden of the world. This book provides information about more than 50 species of me­dicinal and poisonous plants with their photographs scientific name vernacular name botanical description distribution propagation plant parts used phytochemical constituents medicinal uses toxic constitu­ents poisonous parts and poisonous symptoms.The author is extremely confident that this book will be useful to all the stu­dents researchers and teachers in the field of medicinal plants.