This book highlights the importance of traditional medicines, focuses on the standardization of herbal medicine and evaluates opportunities for advancing drug research. It addresses issues in utilization of medicinal plants and shares the importance of herbs in neutraceutics. It provides most competitive techniques being used in research.

Cabbage: A store house of nutraceuticals. Phytonutrients: A relevance to human health. Lukoskin: An effective herbal treatment of leucoderma developed by defence institute of bio-energy research (DRDO), Haldwani. Centipede envenomation effects on human beings and scientific research on traditional antivenom agents: Aristolochia and Piper sp. Anti-Diabetic Herbal Formulations: An Effective Therapeutic Approach to Diabetes. Anti-diabetic activity by the in vitro a-Amylase and a-Glucosidase inhibitory action of Indian Ayurvedic medicinal plant Ficus amplissima Smith. Anti-obese potential of Indian traditional medicinal plants and their phytochemicals. Promise of medicinal plants for neurodegenerative disease: Alzheimer's a review. Plant Sources as Potential Therapeutics for Alzheimer's disease. Schefflera genus (Araliaceae): A review of its botanical description, ethnobotanical use, phytochemistry, pharmacology and toxicology. Selective Chinese viviparous ferns, their bioactive principles and economical values: a review. Prospects of local flora of trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh for various medicinal uses. Phytochemistry of Muntingia calabura fruits. Pharmacognostical and Phytochemical investigation on Pterolobium hexapetalum (Roth.) Sant.& Wagh. Anti-fungal and Antimycotoxigenic Properties of Pogostemon mollis Benth. Against Fusarium graminearum. In vitro biomass accumulation and different biological activities of Leucus aspera (Willd.). Antioxidant potentials of Cup Saucer plant - Breynia retusa (Dennst.) Alston. The promising anti-radical potential of Castanospermum australe A. Cunn. & C. Fraser ex Hook. In vitro plant regeneration, comparative biochemical and antioxidant potential of calli and seeds of sesbania grandiflora (l.) Poiret.