Ethnobiology Therapeutics and Natural Resources

AUTHOR: Ashis Kumar Ghosh
PUBLISHER: Daya Publishing House
ISBN: 9788170355762
YEAR: 2009
PAGES: 204
SIZE: 14 X 22 X 1.5 cms.
BINDING: Hard
LANGUAGE: English

ABOUT THE BOOK: The erosion of knowledge is an every more serious threat than the erosion of biodiversity. Keeping in view in this book effort has been made to unveil the indigenous knowledge. The present book is a mirror of the traditional efforts for the utilization of natural resources. There is a great deal of information available in the book which needs to go back to farmers, pastoralists, potters, dye makers, sweat makers, beekeepers, accupresurits, sacred grove conservators, herbalists and people interested in nature. This will help them to know how the external world interprets their knowledge and uses it.
This book contains 48 articles on different aspects (e.g. self made baby food, senescence, pollution, biological control, etc.
Particularly the book focuses on building lateral learning links not only among the innovators but also among scientists and public policy makers at national and international level.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Dr. A.K. Ghosh has been working on senescence and source-sink relationship of different types of plants since 1985. Besides he has been working on pollution and ethnomedicine since 1993. With more than 19 years of teaching experiences in H.S. section, he is at present serving as Headmaster in Saraswati Vidyamandir. Dr. Ghosh has already published 35 original scientific papers in International Journals of India and abroad. He is the author of 5 books, good sportsman and a social worker.
He acted as a referee in Iraq and Pakistan Journal (PJSIR). Dr. Ghosh has been adjudged the best individual for his notable contribution in the field of Science Popularisation and Performance in disseminating science from the libraries and laboratories to the common people of West Bengal and abroad. He was awarded Gopal Chandra Bhattacharya Smriti Puraskar for the year 2004 by Department of Science and Technology, Government of West Bengal.

CONTENTS:
Foreword
Acknowledgement
Preface

1. INTRODUCTION

2. BENEFICIAL
    1) For Human
        i. Herbal Medicine from Mangrove Areas of South 24 Pgs
        ii. An Ethno-Medico-Ecological Survey at Paschim Medinipur District for Natural Health Care and Green Belt Movement
        iii. A Contribution to the Ethnobotany of Gujarat: Some Medicinal Plants Used as Antidiabetic, Antipyretic and Icteric Agents
        iv. Fruit Can Play as an Antidote in Different Ailments
        v. Instant Household Remedies for Dyspepsia and Cooking Industry
        vi. Potential Remedies for Everyday
        vii. How You Can Survive for a Long Time in the Earth?
        viii. Herbal Folk Remedies of Bankura and Medinipur Districts, West Bengal
    2) For Animals
        i. Ethnoveterinary Medicines from the Tribal Areas of Bankura and Medinipur Districts, West Benga
        ii. Effects of an Aqueous Extract of Cardiospermum halicacabum Linn. Seed on Experimentally Induced Rat Paw Oedema
        iii. Herbal Veterinary Medicine from the Tribal Areas of Midnapur & Bankura Districts, West Bengal
        iv. Indigenous Household Human-Animal Health Care Practices Through Ethnomedicinal Animals

3. ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS
    1) Traditional Vegetable Dyes from Central West Bengal
    2) Natural Vegetable Dyes for Textile Industry in South Bengal
    3) Effects of Polluted Air of Durgapur in Some Medicinal Plants
    4) Selected Piscicidal Plants from South Bengal to Catch Fish
    5) Beware of the Selected Harmful Plants to Keep the Body Fit
    6) Acupressure - A Way of Natural Living
    7) Let's Go to Know Our Popular Superstitions, Magico-religious Beliefs and on Some Curious Cults on Plants, Animals and Events
    8) Beneficial Common Birds in Bengal
    9) Panther's Appeal to Human to Protect Biodiversity
    10) Sacred Grove Relics as Bird Refugia
    11) Foot Prints of Mammals
    12) Apiphilic Plants in Agro-forestry for Better Bee Management to Get More Honey and Wax
    13) Clay Dyes of Purba Medinipur - A Gift of Nature
    14) Some Valuable Aspects on Bio-natural Cultivation
    15) Pest Management Practices Through Natural Resources
    16) Non-Conventional or Additional as well as Natural Source of Different Economic Products from Palms in South Bengal
    17) Ethno-Nutritious Self-Made Baby Food from Paschim Medinipur
    18) The Natural Method of Healing of Ethnic People Through Soil Therapy and Hydrotherapy
    19) Natural Method of Healing of Ethnic Groups Through Common Practices and Dietotherapy
    20) Apiphilic Plants in Agro-Forestry for Bee Management
    21) Medicinal Plants Used for Treatment of Diabetes by the Tribal Peoples of Bankura, Purulia and Medinipur of West Bengal
    22) Cows (Bos indicus) Make Medicine for Mankind
    23) Pest Management Practices Through Biocides
    24) Indigenous Method for Lustry Building by Natural Components
    25) Ecophilic Fuels for Rail Engines and Automobiles
    26) Wood-Ash - The Natural Preserver
    27) Natural Way of Sugarcane Cultivation Through Dew-Trapping Process
    28) Tailoring of Haulms Serve as a Natural Remedy Against "Late Blight of Potato" and Natural Resource for Bio-Fertilizer
    29) The Naturally Cultivated and Processed Groundnut Milk is the Alternative of Cow Milk
    30) Seriphilic Plants in Agro-Forestry
    31) The New Sweety Natural Safe Beverage Yielding Plant of Bengal
    32) Hitherto Untapped Plantlore from Bengal
    33) Sapling of Bamboos Through Nodal Cuttings in Bengal
    34) Senescence Retardant and Antioxidant Potential Plants
    35) Natural Dye-Yielding Plants from West Bengal
    36) Effect of Natural Bio-Fertilizer on Kendu (Diospyros exsculpta) Leaves.

4. GLOSSARY FOR MEDICAL TERMS

5. REFERENCES

6. LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

7. INDEX
    1) Plant Index
    2) Animal Index
    3) Disease Index