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About the Book
A book dealing with the Microscopy of powdered
crude drugs of Indigenous Medicinal Plants was a
long necessity. Crude drugs in the powdered form
sold in the commerce are Liable for adulteration
both intentionally and unintentionally. This has
been going on since ages and shall continue
forever.
Microscopic examination is a simplest and
cheapest tool for standardization of crude drugs
which has found to be forgotten under the deluge
of new technologies. This volume contains
monographs on 90 powder leaf drugs including
their substitutes, adulterants etc. Majority of
the authentic drugs selected being classical
drugs used in various Ayurvedic formulations.
Leaves of some of the whole plant drugs of
Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia Like Mandukparni,
Brahmi, Tragia etc. have also been considered
for their identification. It also contain few
reputed leaf drugs like Digitalis, Stevia,
Costus etc.
In
introduction the general information pertaining
to leaf morphology and microscopy like their
shapes, sizes, contents, types of stomata,
trichomes etc. have been described and
highlighted by giving their figures also. Each
monograph contains Botanical name of the plant.
Family, English, Sanskrit and other Vernacular
names in different languages. The coloured
photographs of individual Leaf or Leaflet
showing its dorsal and ventral surfaces,
powders, flowering twigs, diagrammatic
transverse sections passing through the midrib
and diagnostic characters of the powders have
been given along with their detail write up of
each character. The chemical constituents and
therapeutic uses of the leaves have also been
mentioned at the end.
The first book of this kind
dealing with standardization of powder bark
drugs
showing diagnostic characters drawn with the
help of camera Lucida, published in 2005 was
greatly appreciated by various pharmaceutical
and research organisations; the second book on
Leaf drugs, will surely prove useful to vast
majority of readers including scientists,
herbalist, teachers and students of both
Pharmacy, Ayurveda and other Scientific streams.
For Further details contact:
Prof. M. G. Chauhan / A. P. G. Pillai
Gujarat Ayurved University
Jamnagar 361 008. (India).
Ph. : +91-288-2661315, Fax : +91-288-2676856
Mobile : 9898228249
Email:-
info@ayurveduniversity.com
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