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    Common Medicinal Plants
    Common Medicinal Plants
    Common Medicinal Plants
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    Common Medicinal Plants

    By Harshita Joshi

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    The book “Common Medicinal Plants” explains in detail about some of the commonly grown medicinal plants that can be easily cultivated at home gardens as well as on a commercial scale. The benefit of growing Medicinal Plants at home gardens, apart from their easy cultivation, includes their uses as medicines without any side effects. Some vegetables and fruits also possess medicinal properties and because of this, all health practitioners in alternative medicines advice to consume fruits and vegetables in large quantities. The book covers cultivation practices of some of the medicinal plants that are easy to grow. The last part of the book is a quick reference guide in tabular format so that readers can have easy and quick information about medicinal plants at a glance.

    LanguageEnglish
    Publisheragrihortico
    Release dateMar 6, 2019
    ISBN9780463014097
    Common Medicinal Plants
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    Harshita Joshi

    Harshita Joshi is an agribusiness consultant and a freelance writer. She holds Bachelor’s Degree in Horticulture and Post Graduate Diploma in Agribusiness Management. Horticulture is one of her areas of expertise and writing is her passion.She publishes her writings on horticulture with the help of agrihortico.com,a leading portal in horticulture knowledge dissemination services.

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      Common Medicinal Plants - Harshita Joshi

      Preface

      The book Common Medicinal Plants: Uses and Cultivation Practices explains in detail about some of the commonly grown medicinal plants that can be easily cultivated at home gardens as well as on a commercial scale. The benefit of growing Medicinal Plants at home gardens, apart from their easy cultivation, includes their uses as medicines without any side effects. Some vegetables and fruits also possess medicinal properties and because of this, all health practitioners in alternative medicines advice to consume fruits and vegetables in large quantities. The book covers cultivation practices of some of the medicinal plants that are easy to grow. The last part of the book is a quick reference guide in tabular format so that readers can have easy and quick information about medicinal plants at a glance.

      Medicinal Plants: An Introduction

      In simple words, medicinal plants may be defined as plants that possess medicinal properties and help in curing various ailments of the body either slowly or rapidly. However in terms of plant science, there are many plants that secrete special chemical compounds from different parts to survive in adverse conditions. The compounds synthesized by plants were identified and now are used for therapeutic purposes in all the herbal industries. It is said that almost all the plants have medicinal properties and hence advised by all the health practitioners to consume all those fruits, vegetables, roots and herbs that are considered edible. These active ingredients synthesized by plants help them to get protected from predators for example animals, microorganisms, rodents, birds and rodents. Following this property, various growers have started the commercial cultivation of medicinal plants on a larger scale to generate profit.

      Unique Features of Medicinal Plants: Medicinal plants are recognized and regarded by all the florists and herbal as well as cosmetic industries owing to their potential to cure various disorders. These plants have unique features due to which these are cultivated by both commercial florists and home gardeners. Some of these features are presented here in the next section.

      Type of Body Disorders Cured By Medicinal Plants: The naturally occurring compounds secreted by the medicinal plants help in curing all types of disorders of the body that include mental, respiratory, stomach, skin, intestinal etc without any side-effects. In addition, a single plant has the capability to cure multiple disorders. The properties of these plants are

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