Medicinal Knowledge and Plants of the Chittagong Hill - Tracts Bangladesh (A Phytochemical Oriented Ethnic Medicinal Documentation). 2017. illus.(col. photogr.). Many formulas. XI, 460 p. 4to. Hardcover.

This book describes medicinal knowledge, the social and cultural diversities of the tribal communities of Chittagong Hill Tracts as well as the geographical features and medicinal plants of the region. It also dwells upon the medicinal knowledge for the treatment of different diseases of the ethnic people in the light of their tribal pharmacopoeias, and also about the ingredients collected from different sources used in preparing the tribal medicines for the alleviation of various diseases. The book also delineates upon the methodology of documentation of the medicinal knowledge of the Chittagong Hill Tracts. It includes colored photographs of 100 medicinal plants taken from the wild habitat of the Chittagong Hill features, ethno-medicinal uses, flowering and fruiting times, systematic position, ecology and distribution. The book also highlights important chemical compounds of these plants isolated and identified.

Foreword. Preface. 1. Introduction and the geographical aspects of the Chittagong Hill tracts. 2. The tribal communities of the Chitagong ethnomedicinal features in the Chittagong Hill tracts by the foreign travelers and the scientists of Bangladesh. 4. Medicinal knowledge and the tribal pharmacopoeias. 5. Diseases prevailing among the people of the Chittagong hill tracts and the ingredients used in preparing the tribal medicines for the treatment of different diseases. 6. Methodology of documentation of the medicinal of CHT. 8. Subject Index. Appendices. Bibliography.