Medicinal Plants of Uttarakhand: Diversity, Livelihood and Conservation (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

For past couple of decades, medicinal plants have been increasingly recognized for their role as not only for health care but also contributing to livelihood. Also, increasing commercialization has led to the overharvesting of some economically important medicinal plant species, many of which have become rare, endangered and threatened. Since medicinal plants form an important health commodity and livelihood option, sustainable utilization and conservation of this valuable bioresource is an urgent need of the hour. At the same time, there has been continuous erosion in the traditional knowledge on the use of medicinal plants due to several reasons including lack of proper documentation. Realizing the loss of valuable traditional knowledge on plants use for health care in the past and the increasing interest in herbal therapy at present, there was a need to compile information on medicinal plants.