Thousands of plant species are known to be hazardous which can be found everywhere posing a serious risk of illness, injury or death to human and animals; causing serious economic losses. This book entitled “Poisonous Plants—Their Botany, Properties and Uses” is an integrated and comprehensive account of all related aspects of the subject, comprising of five elaborate and extensive chapters namely (i) Introduction
(ii) Poisonous Plants Affecting Animal Life
(iii) Poisonous Plant Substances (iv) Preventive Measures and Treatment of Poisoning in Case of Human and Animals (v) Important Genera of Poisonous Plants. There are vivid description of 366 genera and 1483 species mentioning their family, common names, poisonous plant parts, poisonous principles, symptoms of poisoning and uses. Such exclusive and detail information on large number of poisonous plants in a single publication is the first of its kind. This publication will be an immense value to scholars, researchers in academia, agricultural and veterinary scientists, medicinal plant collectors and medicinal men, industrialists and agri-veterinary planners.
Common |
Author |
Bhattacharjee, S.K. |
Binding |
Hardcover |
Edition |
1 |
ISBN |
978-81-7910-443-9 |
Language |
English |
Number Of Pages |
64+659 |
Publication Year |
2013 |
Publisher |
Aavishkar Publishers, Distributors, Jaipur |