Indian Medicinal Plants: A Compendium of 500 Species, Volume 45 VBol. set - Ayurveda, with its base in medicinal plants and its origins in ancient Indian history, is recognized as one of the major systems of alternative and complementary medicine. Of particular significance has been the fact that the therapeutic values cited in the ancient texts and the oral tradition have been subjected to continuous interpretation and consolidation by scholars in the field. |
Contents
Marsilea quadrifolia 5 | 30 |
Melia azedarach 10 | 30 |
Mentha arvensis 15 | 30 |
Merremia emarginata 18 | 30 |
Merremia tridentata ssp tridentata 22 | 30 |
Mesua nagassarium 27 | 30 |
Michelia champaca | 33 |
Mimosa pudica | 36 |
Plumbago indica | 321 |
Plumeria rubra | 328 |
Plumeria rubra | 329 |
Polyalthia longifolia | 330 |
Polygonatum cirrhifolium | 333 |
Polygonatum verticillatum | 336 |
Pongamia pinnata | 339 |
Pongamia pinnata | 341 |
Mimusops elengi | 40 |
Mitragyna parvifolia | 45 |
Momordica charantia | 48 |
Monochoria vaginalis | 52 |
Morinda pubescens | 56 |
Moringa oleifera | 59 |
Morus alba | 65 |
Mucuna pruriens | 68 |
Mukia maderaspatana | 73 |
Murraya koenigii | 75 |
Musa paradisiaca | 78 |
Mussaenda frondosa | 86 |
Myristica fragrans | 90 |
Myristica malabarica | 96 |
Myxopyrum serratulum | 98 |
Naravelia zeylanica | 100 |
Nardostachys grandiflora | 104 |
Naregamia alata | 108 |
Nelumbo nucifera | 110 |
Neolamarckia cadamba | 120 |
Neptunia oleracea | 124 |
Piper brachystachyum | 284 |
Piper cubeba | 287 |
Piper longum | 290 |
Piper nigrum | 297 |
Pistacia chinensis ssp integerrima | 305 |
Pisum sativum | 308 |
Plantago ovata | 312 |
Plectranthus amboinicus | 315 |
Plectranthus vettiveroides | 318 |
Portulaca oleracea | 345 |
Premna corymbosa | 348 |
Prunus cerasoides | 353 |
Prunus domestica | 356 |
Prunus domestica | 357 |
Prunus dulcis | 362 |
Prunus dulcis | 363 |
Pseudarthria viscida | 366 |
Psidium guajava | 371 |
Psoralea corylifolia | 374 |
Pterocarpus marsupium | 380 |
Pterocarpus marsupium | 381 |
Pterocarpus santalinus | 384 |
Pterospermum canescens | 388 |
Pueraria tuberosa | 391 |
Punica granatum | 396 |
Punica granatum | 397 |
Quercus infectoria | 403 |
Raphanus sativus | 406 |
Raphanus sativus | 407 |
Rauvolfia serpentina | 409 |
Rauvolfia serpentina | 411 |
Rhaphidophora laciniata | 413 |
Rhinacanthus nasuta | 416 |
Rhinacanthus nasuta | 417 |
Appendix A | 418 |
Appendix B | 427 |
Index to Sanskrit terms | 443 |
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