We all are well aware of the fact that Medicinal Plants and Herbs have been used by mankind from times immemorial, particularly in the traditional Indian systems of medicine, such as Ayurveda and Homeopathy. Some of them are even toxic, but of immense pharmaceutical value.
Basically, plants have the ability to synthesise a wide variety of chemical compounds that are used to perform important biological functions and to defend against attack from predators, like insects, fungi, bacteria and viruses, thus, protecting us from a number of deadly diseases like Cancer, Tuberculosis, AIDS and many incurable Skin and Venereal diseases.
The study of plants for medicinal purposes is called as Herbalism or Herbal Medicine and the usage of these medicinal plants for treatment and cure of different types of diseases is known as Herbal Cure. This book contains an exhaustive list of about 130 medicinal plants and herbs which are used totally or in parts, such as their roots, stems, leaves, or barks, crushed or decocted, boiled or mixed with warm water or honey, etc., to treat innumerable commonly occurring diseases like: cough and cold, fevers, pneumonia, skin diseases, indigestion, diarrhoea, asthma, and even snake-bites and scorpion-stings. CONTENTS: Publisher’s Note 1. Motherwort 2. Honeyweed 3. Common Leucas 4. Horse Mint 5. Bengal Sage 6. Catnip 7. Pink Catmint 8. Tulsi 9. Cat’s Whiskers 10. Cuban Oregano 11. Sangbrei 12. Common Self-Heal 13. Bicolor Skullcap 14. Barringtonia 15. Wild Guava 16. Banchalita 17. Bandicoot Berry 18. Garden Asparagus 19. Satawari 20. Kumarika 21. Flax 36 22. Nux Vomica 23. Blistering Ammannia 24. Common Crape Myrtle 25. Queen Crape Myrtle 26. Fire Flame Bush 27. Madhavi Lata 28. Barbados Cherry 29. Indian Mallow 30. Bush Sorrel 31. Fragrant Swamp Mallow 32. Indian Tulip Tree 33. Ironwood Tree 34. Pithraj Tree 35. Ranabili 36. Persian Lilac 37. Gulbel 38. Shikakai 39. Eucalyptus 40. Malay Apple 41. Red Spiderling 42. Yellow Jasmine 43. Weaver’s Beam Tree 44. River Beauty 45. Evening Primrose 46. Crested Coelogyne 47. Tiny Dendrobium 48. Edgeworth’s Habenaria 49. Jeevak 50. Desert Hyacinth 51. Bilimbi 52. Opium Poppy 53. Love in a Mist 54. Bara Gokhru 55. Mousetail Plant 56. Black-Honey Shrub 57. Chamber Bitter 58. Guinea Henweed 59. Chir Pine 60. Shiny Bush 61. Long Pepper 62. Lal Chitrak 63. Chitrak 64. Crowfoot Grass 65. Perennial Buckwheat 107 66. Oriental Pepper 67. Arrowleaf Dock 68. Nepal Dock 69. Arrow Leaf Pondweed 70. Oval Leaf Pondweed 71. Common Rock Jasmine 72. Traveller’s Joy 73. Jackal Jujube 74. Hairy Agrimony 75. Yellow Himalayan Raspberry 76. Gummy Gardenia 77. Great Morinda 78. Indian Pavetta 79. Curry Leaf 80. Ceylon Satinwood 81. Lavang Lata 82. Rue 83. Winged Prickly Ash 84. Indian Willow 85. Mahua 86. South Indian Mahua 87. Maulsari 88. Chameleon Plant 89. Brahmi 90. Horned Lousewort 91. Sweet Broom Weed 92. Asiatic Witchweed 93. Indian Tree of Heaven 94. Belladonna 95. Henbane 96. Mandrake 97. Ground Cherry 98. Horse Nettle 99. Indian Nightshade 100. Black Nightshade 101. Thorny Nightshade 102. Ashwagandha 103. Apple Mangrove 104. Devil’s Cotton 105. East-Indian Screw Tree 106. Guest Tree 107. Fiji Arrowroot 108. Elegant False Tamarisk 109. Phalsa 110. Indian Elm 111. Bichchhoo 112. Indian Valerian 113. Arni 114. Hill Glory Bower 115. Gamhar 116. Frog Fruit 117. Vervain 118. Chaste Tree 119. Spade Flower 120. Leafless Mistletoe 121. Bush Grape 122. Shell Ginger 123. East Indian Arrowroot 124. Wild Turmeric 125. Black Turmeric 126. Turmeric 127. Hill Turmeric 128. Red Ginger Lily 129. Spiked Ginger Lily 130. Puncture Vine