Medicinal Plants Of Tripura

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Mrs Deepa D. Nair is an Indian Forest Service Officer of Tripura Cadre. She has completed her B Sc in Agriculture from Kerala Agriculture University and MSc in Agriculture Microbiology on "Nodulation and Nitrogen fixation of Root Nodulating Bacteria of Indigofera tinctoria Linn" a medicinal plant of commercial value from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa New Delhi. She has served as Divisional Forest Officer, Working Plan and Research in Tripura and also as Chief Executive Officer of Medicinal Plants Board of Tripura. At present she is serving as the Divisional Forest Officer, Udaipurwhich is a territorial Forest Division in South Tripura.

Dr Atul Kumar Gupta is an Indian Forest Service Officer (1982 batch) of Tripura Cadre. He has completed M. Sc. in Zoology and Ph. D. in Wildlife Ecology from University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. He has also done MBA and MA in Sociology. He had served as Deputy Director (Wildlife) in the Ministry of Environment & Forests, Government of India. He had also put his valuable contributions as Professor and Head, Department of Population Management, Capture & Rehabilitation and also as Registrar at the Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun. Presently he is serving as Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests and Chief Wildlife Warden, Tripura. He is also the Vice-Chairman of the Medicinal Plants Board of Tripura which deals with all matters related with the conservation and development of medicinal plants in Tripura. He is also serving as the Chief Executive Officer & Project Director, Indo German Development Cooperation Project, Tripura. Dr. Gupta has to his credit more than 120 publications including edited books, peer reviewed scientific papers, popular articles and papers read in many National and International seminars and workshops.

Himanshu Bikas Das is an MSc in Botany presently working as a taxonomist at the Medicinal Plants Board of Tripura. He had served as a Senior Research Fellow in a NIPER (National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research) sponsored project under Tripura University on ethnobotany. In the course of this project he has worked extensively among the tribal and traditional healers and has very good knowledge of all the medicinal species in Tripura.

Atanu Chakraborty is an MSc in Applied Microbiology and was working as a taxonomist with the Medicinal Plants Board of Tripura. He is now working as an ACF in the Tripura Forest Department.

The North Eastern region of India is one of the mega biodiversity hotspots of the World. The region is also home to a very large number of medicinal plants species that are extremely valuable for their role in traditional health practices among the different tribes inhabiting the region. Tripura is one such North Eastern state bestowed with huge medicinal flora, some of which is highly endemic and has been providing livelihood besides health security in some of the remote regions of the state where health infrastructure is generally quite inadequate. The attempt by the State Medicinal Plants Board, Tripura and the Forest Department to compile the information on medicinal plants of the state is an immensely valuable piece of work being published through the book titled "Medicinal Plants of Tripura".

I am confident that the pictorial information on the medicinal plants occurring in Tripura, giving their local names, scientific nomenclature, distribution and the local usage will go a long way in showcasing the medicinal plants wealth of the State and also help develop schemes and programmes for harnessing this potential for the benefit of the society at large. The book will also be of immense value to those involved in the field of medicinal plants conservation and development.

I extend my good wishes to the team of authors for bringing out this immensely valuable book.

This "Medicinal Plants of Tripura" is a photographic illustration of 203 medicinal species of Tripura which will not only help in identification of these species but also give a short idea about its medicinal uses and properties. It is designed primarily as an identification hand book for field officers and staff related to medicinal species. The 203 species includes not only some of the common medicinal species but also many rare and lesser known species found in Tripura. The species has also been cross checked with the descriptions in the Flora of Tripura, Volume 1&11 by Sri D. B. Deb.

The collection includes trees, shrubs and herbs which are of medicinal value. The plant species shown in the plates are all taken locally from various sites in Tripura in their natural habitats. The descriptions include the accurate scientific names, local Bengali names, families, economic parts used and the common medicinal uses. The photographs are taken mostly from Trishna Wild Life Sanctuary and Ambassa Forest Division which are the most forested areas in Tripura. While identifying these species local names collected from local traditional healers came to be very useful.

This has been published with the hope that it will benefit all those associated with medicinal plants sector including Scientists, Researchers, Forest officers, Forest field staffs, Students, Traditional practitioners etc. This is the first attempt to photographically illustrate the medicinally important species of Tripura.

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