Год выпуска: 2012 Автор: Animesh Biswas,M. A. Bari Miah and S. K. Bhadra Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 232 ISBN: 9783847373520
Описание
Chittagong Hill Tracts is the only extensive hilly areas of Bangladesh hold the vast reserves of medicinal plants, which is being used by its inhabitants belonging to different indigenous and ethnic groups.The study was undertaken aimed to address the indigenous knowledge of traditional herbal treatments and developing in vitro regeneration protocols for endangered species. One hundred ninety medicinal plant species belonging to 147 genera and 57 families were identified and studied. Sixty different diseases were known treated with these 190 medicinal plants and fever was noted as the most common disease being treated by the use of 35 plant species. On scoring perspective, among the rare species Plumbago indica possessed the highest (20.88) and Ocimum basilicum had the lowest (16.0) rarity score under this study. In vitro study was done in several of theses endangered species presenting tissue culture protocols for their micropropagation as well as their conservation, On the other...
