Contents
Chapter 1 Diseases that need new drugs: Need of the hour Debprasad Chattopadhyay, Paromita Bag and Sujit K Bhattacharya
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Chapter 2 Ethno medicine in complementary therapeutics Pulok K. Mukherjee, S. Ponnusankar and M. Venkatesh
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Chapter 3 Ethnomedicinal plants in parasitic infections Varughese George, Sabulal Baby and Anil John J
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Chapter 4 Ethnomedicines for the development of anti-herpesvirus agents Debprasad Chattopadhyay, Sonali Das, Sekhar Chakraborty and Sujit K Bhattacharya
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Chapter 5 Ethnomedicinal plants derived antibacterials and their prospects Maryam Zahin, F. Aqil, M. S. A. Khan and Iqbal Ahmad
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Chapter 6 Recent advances in research of antimicrobial effects of essential oils and plant derived compounds on bacteria Zsuzsanna Schelz, Judit Hohmann and Joseph Molnar
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Chapter 7 Ethnomedicinal plants to fight neoplastic diseases C. K. K. Nair, P. Divyasree and G. Gopakumar
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