Medicinal Knowledge and Plants of the Chittagong Hill-Tracts Bangladesh A Phytochemical Oriented Ethnic Medicinal Documentation

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Language: English

Medicinal Knowledge and Plants of the Chittagong Hill-Tracts Bangladesh describes medicinal knowledge, the social and cultural diversities of the tribal communities of Chittagong Hill Tracts, as well as the geographical features and medicinal plants of the region. It describes the medicinal knowledge for the treatment of different diseases of the local ethnic people in the light of their tribal pharmacopoeias, and the ingredients collected from different sources used in preparing the tribal medicines for the alleviation of various diseases. The book includes the methodology of documentation of medicinal knowledge of the Chittagong Hill Tracts. It includes colour photos of 100 medicinal plants taken in their wild habitat of the Chittagong Hill Tracts with their tribal, Bangladeshi and English names, as well as botanical features, ethno-medicinal uses, flowering and fruiting times, systematic position, ecology and distribution. The book highlights important chemical compounds of these plants isolated and identified by phytochemists.

Medicinal Knowledge and Plants of the Chittagong Hill-Tracts Bangladesh will be also useful for the students and teachers in the fields of botany, chemistry, photochemistry, pharmacy, pharmacology and medicine as well as people associated with the preparation and dispensing of indigenous and traditional medicines for health care activities. It will also be very useful to a host of people and specialists who are involved in the discovery of newer physiologically active compounds from plant sources for the treatment of different ailments and agonies.

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