Indian Medicinal Plants

What it is

A survey of the medicinal plants of India: a botanical description of each, its names in the languages of India, and the uses recorded by Sanskrit writers, Indian practitioners and earlier European authors. Text in two parts, with volumes of plates.

Whose knowledge it records

Names and uses of plants from across India's languages and regions, from Sanskrit medical texts, and from earlier writers such as Ainslie and Dymock. Compiled by two Indian physicians of the Indian Medical Service, Kanhoba Ranchoddas Kirtikar and Baman Das Basu.

Passages transcribed

• 1249. Alpinia Galanga (names and Uses) (Part 2, pp. 1262–1263)
• 128. Garcinia indica (parts used and uses) (p. 147)
• 231. Murraya Koenigii (parts used and uses) (p. 260)
• 392. Clitoria Ternatea (pp. 448–449)
• 649. Eclipta alba, Hassk. (names, and Uses) (pp. 686–688)
• 779. Gymnema sylvestre (names and uses) (pp. 823–824)
• 959. Vitex Negundo (uses) (pp. 1000–1001)