Ethnobotany Of The Himalayas

Author : Ripu M. Kunwar,Hassan Sher,Rainer W. Bussmann
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 2107 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030574086

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Ethnobotany of the Himalayas by Ripu M. Kunwar,Hassan Sher,Rainer W. Bussmann Pdf

Research in recent years has increasingly shifted away from purely academic research, and into applied aspects of the discipline, including climate change research, conservation, and sustainable development. It has by now widely been recognized that “traditional” knowledge is always in flux and adapting to a quickly changing environment. Trends of globalization, especially the globalization of plant markets, have greatly influenced how plant resources are managed nowadays. While ethnobotanical studies are now available from many regions of the world, no comprehensive encyclopedic series focusing on the worlds mountain regions is available in the market. Scholars in plant sciences worldwide will be interested in this website and its dynamic content. The field (and thus the market) of ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology has grown considerably in recent years. Student interest is on the rise, attendance at professional conferences has grown steadily, and the number of professionals calling themselves ethnobotanists has increased significantly (the various societies, like the Society for Economic Botany, the International Society of Ethnopharmacology, the Society of Ethnobiology, and the International Society for Ethnobiology currently have thousands of members). Growth has been most robust in BRIC countries. This new MRW on Ethnobotany of the Himalayas takes advantage of the increasing international interest and scholarship in the field of mountain research. It includes the best and latest research on a full range of descriptive, methodological, theoretical, and applied research on the most important plants in the Himalayas. Each contribution is scientifically rigorous and contributes to the overall field of study.

Author : T. Pullaiah,K. V. Krishnamurthy,Bir Bahadur
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781351800211

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Ethnobotany of India, Volume 4 by T. Pullaiah,K. V. Krishnamurthy,Bir Bahadur Pdf

Ethnobotany of India: Volume 4: Western and Central Himalayas is the 4th volume of the 5-volume set, an informative book series on the ethnobotanical aspects of India. The books cover different regions, including Volume 1: Eastern Ghats and Deccan Volume 2: Western Ghats and West Coast of Peninsular India Volume 3: North-East India and Andaman and Nicobar Islands Volume 4: Western and Central Himalayas Volume 5: The Indo-Gangetic Region Each volume looks at the important ethnic plants of the specific region. Volume 4 covers the Western and Central Himalayas, the well-known mountain range on the Indian subcontinent. The unique flora and fauna of the Himalayas are varied, affected by climate, rainfall, altitude, and soils, and are vulnerable to impacts from climate change. The editors espouse that because indigenous non-Western societies form the vast majority of people now as well as in the past, a study of their plant interrelationships is necessary, and India is one of the most important regions of the old world for its ancient and culturally rich and diverse knowledge of ethnobotany. With this in mind, these volumes share a great deal of information that will be valuable to plant botanists and others working in and interested in ethnobotany. This important volume covers the ethnobotanical aspects of many plants of the region. It looks at ethnic diversity of people ethnic food plants and food preparation ethnomedical aspects of plants psychedelic plants and their possible link to soma, a vedic ritual drink whose plant origins are a mystery ethnoveterinary medicinal plants ethno-conservation practices biodiversity heritage sites The volume includes the details of the plants used, their scientific names, the parts used, and how the plants are used, providing the what, how, and why of plant usage. The book is well illustrated with 20 color and 67 b/w illustrations. Together, the five volumes in the Ethnobotany of India series presents the available ethnobotanical knowledge of India in one place. India’s ancient and culturally rich and diverse information and use of ethnobotany will be valuable to those in the fields of botany and plant sciences, pharmacognosy and pharmacology, nutraceuticals, and others. The books also consider the threat to plant biodiversity imposed by environmental degradation, which impacts cultural diversity.

Author : Om Prakash Chaurasia,Zakwan Ahmed,Basant Ballabh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Ethnobotany
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131628922

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Ethnobotany and Plants of Trans-Himalaya by Om Prakash Chaurasia,Zakwan Ahmed,Basant Ballabh Pdf

Author : Arshad Mehmood Abbasi,Mir Ajab Khan,Mushtaq Ahmad,Muhammad Zafar
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461415756

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Medicinal Plant Biodiversity of Lesser Himalayas-Pakistan by Arshad Mehmood Abbasi,Mir Ajab Khan,Mushtaq Ahmad,Muhammad Zafar Pdf

The Himalayan region is among the largest mountains systems of the world with uncounted unique medicinal plants resources. The lesser Himalayas ranges are the extension of Greater Himalayas. They have unique ecology, vegetation and diversity of medicinal flora due to tremendous variation in the altitude, climate and associated wildlife. The utilization of medicinal plants in medicine suffers from the fact that although plants are used to treat diseases, scientific evidence is lacking in many cases. Different societies of the world use the plants according to their own beliefs and knowledge and previous experiences. Their knowledge about the use of the plants is usually not known to the other world or science. This book provides a brief introduction of Lesser Himalayas, ethnobotanical aspects, marketing and anthropogenic pressure on medicinal flora. It comprises one hundred medicinal plant species including Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms and Angiosperms (Monocots and Dicots) along with their scientific description and traditional uses.

Author : S. K. Sood,Anjna Kharwal,T. N. Lakhanpal,A. K. Bhatnagar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Ethnobotany
ISBN : 9382332375

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Ethnobotany by S. K. Sood,Anjna Kharwal,T. N. Lakhanpal,A. K. Bhatnagar Pdf

Offers the first-ever comprehensive ready-reckoner of its type providing up-to-date information on the multifaceted uses of 335 Himalayan plants. The information presented is based on actual field surveys, and includes an economic valuation of the source flora. Also covered is the native status and availability of the plant resources, and the neutraceutical analysis of some underutilized edibles.

Author : Arshad Mehmood Abbasi,Munir Hussain Shah,Mir Ajab Khan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319095431

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Wild Edible Vegetables of Lesser Himalayas by Arshad Mehmood Abbasi,Munir Hussain Shah,Mir Ajab Khan Pdf

Our intention with this book was to present the reader with the most accurate, significant, and up-to-date background and knowledge in the areas of ethnomedicinal and nutraceutical vegetation for the Lesser Himalayas in a comprehensive text. Wild Edible Vegetables of Lesser Himalayas provides a complete review of over 50 important plants of this region and details each species including photographs, botanical name, local name, family, flowering and fruiting period, status and habitat, parts used, distribution, ethnobotanical uses, cultural aspects, medicinal uses, and nutraceutical aspects. Medicinal uses include mode of preparation, method of application and diseases studied; cultural aspects and index; nutraceutical data provides analysis of fats, proteins, fibers, carbohydrates, ash, moisture content, dry matter, and energy value; elemental analysis includes various essential and toxic metals; phytochemical screening includes total phenolics, flavonoids, flavonols and ascorbic acid, and antioxidant potential in terms of DPPH scavenging activity, hydroxyl radical scavenging activity, H2O2 scavenging activity, Fe2+ chelating activity, ferric reducing antioxidant power, and phosphomolybdenum assay for each species. Wild Edible Vegetables of Lesser Himalayas is a concise and handy guide for scientists, scholars, and students interested in the study of agriculture, food science, nutraceutical science, bioscience, biodiversity, applied ethnobotany, ethnoecology, and ecology.

Author : T. Pullaiah,Bir Bahadur,K. V. Krishnamurthy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Ethnic groups
ISBN : 1771885505

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Ethnobotany of India by T. Pullaiah,Bir Bahadur,K. V. Krishnamurthy Pdf

This important volume covers the ethnobotanical aspects of many plants of the region. It looks at ethnic diversity of people, ethnic food plants and food preparation, ethnomedical aspects of plants, psychedelic plants and their possible link to soma (a vedic ritual drink whose plant origins are a mystery), ethnoveterinary medicinal plants, ethno-conservation practices, and biodiversity heritage sites. The volume includes the details of the plants used, their scientific names, the parts used, and how the plants are used, providing the what, how, and why of plant usage. The book is well illustrated with 20 color and 67 b/w illustrations.

Author : T. Pullaiah,K. V. Krishnamurthy,Bir Bahadur
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781315341613

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Ethnobotany of India, Volume 3 by T. Pullaiah,K. V. Krishnamurthy,Bir Bahadur Pdf

Ethnobotany of India: Volume 3: North-East India and Andaman and Nicobar Islands is the third of a five-volume set of Ethnobotany of India. Bringing together in one place the important information on the ethnobotany of the North-East India and Andaman and Nicobar Island region of India, this informative volume presents the details of the tribes of the region, their numbers, their habitat, their culture, and particularly their usage of plants for various purposes.

Author : Arshad Mehmood Abbasi,Rainer W. Bussmann
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030554941

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Ethnobiology of Mountain Communities in Asia by Arshad Mehmood Abbasi,Rainer W. Bussmann Pdf

Natural resources and associated biological diversity provide the basis of livelihood for human population, particularly in the rural areas and mountain regions across the globe. Asia is home to the world's highest mountain regions including the Himalayas, Karakorum and Hindukush. These regions are renowned around the globe because of their unique beauty, climate, and biocultural diversity. Because of geoclimatic conditions, the mountains of Asia are medicinal and food plant diversity hot spots. The indigenous communities residing in the valleys of these mountains have their own culture and traditions, and have a long history of interaction with the surrounding plant diversity. Local inhabitants of these mountains areas possess significant traditional knowledge of plant species used as food, medicine, and for cultural purposes. So far, many workers have reported traditional uses of plant species from different regions of Asia including some mountain areas; however, there is not one inclusive document on the ethnobotany of mountains in Asia. This book provides a comprehensive overview on ethno-ecological knowledge and cross cultural variation in the application of plant species among various communities residing in the mountains of Asia; cross cultural variation in traditional uses of plant species by the mountain communities; high value medicinal and food plant species; and threats and conservation status of plant species and traditional knowledge. This book should be useful to researchers of biodiversity and conservation, ethnobiologists, ethnoecologists, naturalists, phytochemists, pharmacists, policy makers, and all who have a devotion to nature.

Author : B. D. Sharma (Plant geneticists)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Ethnobotany
ISBN : 8121108772

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Himalayan edible medicinal plants : science and traditional wisdom by B. D. Sharma (Plant geneticists) Pdf

Author : Mohammad Saleem Wani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798886976274

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Ethnobotany, Phytochemistry, and Pharmacology of Woody Angiosperms of the Northwest Himalayas by Mohammad Saleem Wani Pdf

The present book provides detailed information on some of the medicinally important trees of the Northwest Himalayas. The book covers basic data on systematic position, geographical distribution, ethno-botanical aspects, phytochemistry and pharmacology of these medicinally important trees.

Author : R. D. Gaur
Publisher : Transmedia
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Botany
ISBN : CHI:60451647

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Flora of the District Garhwal, North West Himalaya by R. D. Gaur Pdf

Author : Dr. Suresh Kumar
Publisher : Kojo Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9788193380543

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Ethnobotany, Volume 1 by Dr. Suresh Kumar Pdf

Ethnobotany deals with relationship between people and plants. Since ancient times plants were used to cure all types of illness and diseases all over the world. The traditional knowledge of medicincal valued plants communicated from one generation to another generation and plays a significant role in the development of traditional medicines. The ethnobotanical research provides information about medicinal plants that can cure fatal diseases. This book has fourteen chapters that include various aspect of Ethnobotany viz: Introduction to Ethnobotany; Ethnobotany: Past, Present and Future; Ethnobotany and Ayurveda; Important Sacred Plants in India; Grace of Butter tree; Diversity, Indigenous use of the Ethnomedicinal flora of various plants of India; Ethnobotany and Modern system of Medicine; Plants of folklore from myth to magic; Different tribal committee of India and Historical journey and its prospective in India. This book is highly relevant to innovated and enhance knowledge about Ethnobotany and helpful for undergraduate, post-graduate students, research scholars and faculty. The book incorporates chapters authored by eminent botanists who are working in the field of Ethnobotany since a long time.

Author : T. Pullaiah,K. V. Krishnamurthy,Bir Bahadur
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 2242 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781351737661

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Ethnobotany of India, 5-Volume Set by T. Pullaiah,K. V. Krishnamurthy,Bir Bahadur Pdf

This new 5-volume set, Ethnobotany of India, provides an informative overview of human-plant interrelationships in India, focusing on the regional plants and their medicinal properties and uses. Each volume focuses on a different significant region of India, including Volume 1: Eastern Ghats and Deccan Volume 2: Western Ghats and West Coast of Peninsular India Volume 3: North-East India and Andaman and Nicobar Islands Volume 4: Western and Central Himalaya Volume 5: The Indo-Gangetic Region and Central India With chapters written by experts in the field, the book provides comprehensive information on the tribals (the indigenous populations of the region) and knowledge on plants that grow around them. Each volume includes an introductory chapter with an overview of the region and then goes on to cover ethnic diversity and culture of the ethnic tribes plants used for healing and medical purposes for humans and animals ethnic food plants and ethnic food preparation specific information on the ethnomedicinal plants, the parts used, and the diseases cured other uses of plants by the ethnic tribes, such as for fiber, dyes, flavor, and recreation conservation, documentation, and management efforts of the ethnic communities and their plant knowledge The books include the details of the plants used, their scientific names, the parts used, and how the plants are used, providing the what, how, and why of plant usage. The volumes are well illustrated with over 100 color and 130 b/w illustrations. Together, the five volumes in the Ethnobotany of India series bring together the available ethnobotanical knowledge of India in one place. India is one of the most important regions of the old world, and its ancient and culturally rich and diverse knowledge of ethnobotany will be valuable to many in the fields of botany and plant sciences, pharmacognosy and pharmacology, nutraceuticals, and others. The books also consider the threat to plant biodiversity imposed by environmental degradation, which impacts cultural diversity.

Author : Alejandro Casas,José Juan Blancas Vázquez
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1581 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030993573

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Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Mexico by Alejandro Casas,José Juan Blancas Vázquez Pdf

Research in recent years has increasingly shifted away from purely academic research, and into applied aspects of the discipline, including climate change research, conservation, and sustainable development. It has by now widely been recognized that “traditional” knowledge is always in flux and adapting to a quickly changing environment. Trends of globalization, especially the globalization of plant markets, have greatly influenced how plant resources are managed nowadays. While ethnobotanical studies are now available from many regions of the world, no comprehensive encyclopedic series focusing on the worlds mountain regions is available in the market. Scholars in plant sciences worldwide will be interested in this website and its dynamic content. The field (and thus the market) of ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology has grown considerably in recent years. Student interest is on the rise, attendance at professional conferences has grown steadily, and the number of professionals calling themselves ethnobotanists has increased significantly (the various societies (Society for Economic Botany, International Society of Ethnopharmacology, Society of Ethnobiology, International Society for Ethnobiology, and many regional and national societies in the field currently have thousands of members). Growth has been most robust in BRIC countries. The objective of this new MRW on Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions is to take advantage of the increasing international interest and scholarship in the field of mountain research. We anticipate including the best and latest research on a full range of descriptive, methodological, theoretical, and applied research on the most important plants for each region. Each contribution will be scientifically rigorous and contribute to the overall field of study.