This compendium on tested and approved medicinal plant drugs and potential for new drugs from plants based on ethno pharmacological and anecdotal reports is a collection of critical information on the biology, chemistry and brief descriptions of the known and potential medicinal values of plants. This book is a storehouse of information on medicinal plants collected from many sources in readable language that will be useful for laymen, students, academics, drug developers, drug formulators and businesses interested in alternative and holistic medicine.

This book also helps the readers to understand the basics of the biology of Cancer, Cardiovascular, Urinogenital, Ear Nose and throat, Eye, Brain and central nervous system, dermal, microbial and the interrelations of these human anatomical systems.

This book will serve as a guide, a reference and source book and a good book for all who are interested in knowing the why and how of Phytomedicine : Herbal medicine and the opportunities that exist to find new ways of dealing with health issues.