Chopra's Indigenous Drugs of India

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Academic Publishers, 1982 - Botany - 816 pages

Contents

THE MEDICAL AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF INDIAN
1
VALUE OF RESEARCH IN INDIGENOUS DRUGS
7
THREE MAIN ASPECTS OF THE Problem
15
SANTALUM ALBUM
18
84
19
DRUGS USED IN THE INDIGENOUS MEDICINE
21
DEVELOPMENT OF ALLIED INDUSTRIES
29
Utilisation of Forest Resources 30 Cultivation of Drug
36
Therapeutic Uses
370
PISTACIA INTEGERRIMA
377
Produced from Other Causes 382 Ispaghula in Diarrhoea
383
PSORALEA CORYLIFOLIA
391
RAUVOLFIA SERPENTINA
397
Uses in Indigenous Medicines 410 Chemical Composition
411
TERMINALIA ARJUNA
421
Chemical Composition
427

CORRELATION OF BOTANICAL CLASSIFICATION OF PLANTS THEIR
42
PART II
49
CINNAMOMUM ZEYLANICUM
50
MELIA AZADIRACHTA
51
New Classification 55 Aconites Used in Medicine with their
59
ARTEMISIA MARITIMA
65
ATROPA ACUMINATA
72
CANNABIS SATIVA
84
CARUM CARVI
92
CASSIA ANGUSTIFOLIA
98
CINNAMOMUM CAMPHORA
120
100
127
72
129
ELETTARIA CARDAMOMUM
142
ERYTHROXYLUM COCA
161
FERULA NARTHEX
173
GAULTHERIA FRAGRANTISSIMA
179
HYOSCYAMUS MUTICUS
189
JUNIPERUS COMMUNIS
195
Cultivation 201 Composition
202
Medicine 205 Production in India 206 Decrease
213
PIMPINELLA ANISUM
219
PODOPHYLLUM HEXANDRUM
226
137
229
Cultivation 235 Constituents 235 Commerce
235
336
244
Cultivation 247 Constituents
247
PART III
259
266 Summary
266
142
268
ALSTONIA SCHOLARIS
276
cological Action 282 Therapeutic Uses
282
coriacea 290 Berberis floribunda 290 Berberis himalaica
291
3
293
BRAGANTIA WALLICHII
301
172
321
CUSCUTA REFLEXA
329
EUPHORBIA PILULIFERA
335
Chemical Composition 340 Therapeutic Uses
341
Chemical Composition
351
Chemical Composition 357 Therapeutic Uses 358
358
MELIA AZEDARACH
363
173
433
Chemical Composition 434 Pharmacological Action
434
Drugs of Mineral and Animal Origin
440
Introduction 445 Lauha Bhasma 446 Chemical Composi
448
RAUPYA BHASMA Reduced Silver
454
Chemical Composition 462 Gold Kusth 462 Pharmaco
463
Action on the Higher Centres 468 Action on the Circulatory
469
MYLABRIS
472
INTRODUCTION
479
List of Books Referred to 481 List of Journals Referred
491
350
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SECTION II
539
TRIBULUS TERRESTRIS
549
B PLANTS LIABLE TO PRODUCE DERMATITIS
551
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574
ACORUS CALAMUS
576
465
590
28
591
106
597
174
598
B PLANTS ALLEGED TO HAVE ANTITUBERCULAR PROPERTIES
600
TYLOPHORA ASTHMATICA
606
390
632
tion of Exotic Aromatic Plants 638 Essential Oil Bearing
639
644 Teloschistes 644 Caloplaca 645 Usnea 645
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642
660
391
683
VITEX PEDUNCULARIS
690
ADDENDUM
691
395
704
WITHANIA SOMNIFERA
707
INDEX OF COMMON VERNACULAR AND POPULAR NAMES
709
352
714
331
715
356
725
111
727
120
739
125
754
INDEX OF CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS
778
ACTINODAPHNE HOOKERI
792
XANTHIUM STRUMARIUM
816

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