| Summary: | "The traditional medicine is a sum total of knowledge or practices used in diagnosis, preventing or curing a physical, mental or social diseases. Practices of traditional medicines vary from country to country and from region to region and usually influenced by the factors such as culture, traditions, personal attitude and philosophy. The book "Traditional Medicinal Systems and Threatened Medicinal Plants of Kumaun, Western Himalaya, India" is a documentation of TMS of Kumaun along with 256 medicinal plants including 50 threatened plant species. The families and species are arranged in alphabetical order. The present book will be a interest of researchers, students, teachers, naturalist, conservationist, trackers, botanist, nature lovers and traditional practitioners etc." -- Back cover.
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